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My husband was arrested for investigating First Lady: ex-DIG’s wife
January 26, 2015 01:44 pm
Ada Derana
Former DIG Vass Gunawardena’s wife, Shyamali Priyadarshani Perera, today alleged that her husband was arrested under “false charges” due to him spearheading an investigation into a conspiracy to sell 100kg of gold belonging to the treasury and its direct links to the former First lady.
Speaking to reporters after filing a complaint with the Bribery Commission this morning, she said that her husband had received information through the army intelligence unit regarding an attempt to illegally sell 100 kilograms of gold, worth around Rs 500 million, belonging to the state treasury.
Shyamali Perera claimed that her husband, who was then the DIG Colombo (North), had revealed to her that the investigation had uncovered the involvement of First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa and that he was ordered to halt the investigation and push it aside by then Western Province DIG Anura Senanayake.
However, she stated that former DIG Vass Gunawardena had received numerous threats after certain media had reported the incident and that one day the Chairman of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC), Hudson Samarasinghe, had visited their home asked her husband to make a statement that Shiranthi Rajapaksa was not involved in the case.
Shyamali Perera stated that several days later steps were taken to arrest her husband and son under “false charges” and that she continued to receive threats while once a grenade was hurled at their home.
She added that her husband had instructed her to lodge a complaint regarding the matter as the new government is probing incidents of corruption and misuse.
Shyamali Perera also said that her husband, Vass Gunawardena, has decided to reveal many secrets known by him and assist in investigations in the future.
The ex-DIG, his son Ravindu Gunawardena and four other suspects have been charged with the murder of businessman Mohammed Shiyam which took place in the Dompe area on May 22, 2013. He was arrested on June 10, 2013 while the case is still being heard by the Colombo High Court.
Meanwhile Vass Gunawardena’s wife Shyamali Perera was accused of threatening the witnesses of the businessman murder case.
She was ordered to appear before court for allegedly threatening and intimidating witnesses in the case.
In 2009, she was arrested and remanded in connection with the assault on an IT student.
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Re: My husband was arrested for investigating First Lady: ex-DIG’s wife
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Re: My husband was arrested for investigating First Lady: ex-DIG’s wife
Gold in Treasury is under supervision of many officials. No one can sell them without their official involvement . To sell 100 Kg they have to follow definite procedures.
Actually, this case is related to a scam done by an organized gang in 2013.
This incident was reported in newspapers .
They have cheated some wealthy businessmen by promising gold from Treasury at a bargain price , collected lot of money and vanished.
After the complains , police under guidance of DIG Vaas Gunawardena has arrested the gang.
Those days , names of some members of the gang were reported, including a relative of a cricketer.
Now they say Shiranti was a member of that gang and Vass was arrested under “false charges” due to that ?
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http://www.adaderana.lk/news.php?nid=22567
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But I think we have a bigger role to play.
Stop craving for Junk and automatically the supply will dwindle too.
Are we game for that here?
poor boy wrote:The media shows about this Bribery and corruption complains must be stopped until allegations are proven. aN suspect is innocent until the case is proven. Now it has become a practice to go to corruption commission with media to insult people.
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26 ජනවාරි 2015
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රාජ්ය භාණ්ඩාගාරයට අයත් රත්රන් තොගයක් විකිණීමේ වංචාවකට හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ගේ ආර්යාව, ශිරන්ති රාජපක්ෂ, සම්බන්ධ බවට ඉදිරිපත් වූ සාක්ෂි විභාග කිරීම හේතුවෙන් රාජපක්ෂ ආණ්ඩුව සිය ස්වාමියා ගෙන් පළිගැනීමට කටයුතු කළ බව හිටපු නියෝජ්ය පොලිස්පති වාස් ගුණවර්ධන ගේ බිරිඳ ප්රකාශ කරයි.
හිටපු නියෝජ්ය පොලිස්පතිවරයාගේ බිරිඳ ශ්යාමලී ප්රියදර්ශනී පෙරේරා ඒ බව කියා සිටියේ, හිටපු ජනාධිපති ආර්යාවට එරෙහිව අල්ලස් හෝ දූෂණ විමර්ශන කොමිසමට පැමිණිල්ලක් ගොනු කිරීමෙන් අනතුරුව මාධ්යවේදීන් හමුවේ අදහස් දක්වමින්.
"ඉන්පසු මටත්, මගේ රට ඉන්න පුතාටත්, මහත්තයටත් දිගින් දිගටම තර්ජන ආව මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් කිසිම හෙළිදරවුවක් කිසිම කෙනෙකුට කරන්න එපා, කළොත් මගේ මහත්තයා ඉදිරියට කවදාවත් එලියට එන්න දෙන්නෙත් නෑ කියල," යනුවෙන් ශ්යාමලී ප්රියදර්ශනී පෙරේරා සඳහන් කළාය.
"මට මරණීය තර්ජන ආව. මගේ ගෙදරට බෝම්බ ගැහුවා."
'අසත්ය චෝදනා'
කෙසේ නමුත් අදාළ විමර්ශනය සහ හිටපු ජනාධිපති ආර්යාව අතර කිසිදු සම්බන්ධයක් නොමැති බව, එවකට බස්නාහිර පළාත් භාර ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ නියෝජ්ය පොලිස්පති පදවිය දැරූ අනුර සේනානායක බීබීසී දෙමළ සේවයේ ජයප්රගාෂ් නල්ලුසාමි කළ විමසීමකදී කියා සිටියේය.
'පැහැදිලිව අසත්යයක් මේක. මේ විමර්ශනයේදී කිසිම අවස්ථාවක එතුමියගේ නම ආවේ නෑ'
"පැහැදිලිව අසත්යයක් මේක. මේ විමර්ශනයේදී කිසිම අවස්ථාවක එතුමියගේ නම ආවේ නෑ," යන්නයි එම චෝදනාව පිළිබඳව ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ නියෝජ්ය පොලිස්පතිවරයා ගේ ප්රතිචාරය වූයේ.
රත්රන් තොගය විකිණීම පිළිබඳව ආරම්භ වූ පරීක්ෂණ නවත්වන මෙන් හිටපු බස්නාහිර පළාත් භාර ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ නියෝජ්ය පොලිස්පති අනුර සේනානායක, සිය සැමියා වාස් ගුණවර්ධනට බලපෑම් කිරීමත් සමග එම පරීක්ෂණය අතරමඟ නැවතුන බවද ශ්යාමලී ප්රියදර්ශනී පෙරේරා පවසන්නීය.
එම චෝදනාව ද තරයේ ප්රතික්ෂේප කරන ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ නියෝජ්ය පොලිස්පති අනුර සේනානායක, පරීක්ෂණ අතරමඟ නතර වූයේ නම් මේ වන විට සැකකරුවන් නමදෙනකු අත්අඩංගුවේ සිටින්නේ කෙසේදැයි ප්රශ්න කරයි.
වාස් ගුණවර්ධන හිටපු නියෝජ්ය පොලිස්පතිවරයාගේ බිරිඳ එල්ල චෝදනාව පිළිබඳව විමසීම පිණිස හිටපු ජනාධිපති ආර්යාව හෝ හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ඇමතීමට බීබීසී සංදේශය දරු උත්සාහය සාර්ථක නොවීය.
හිටපු නියෝජ්ය පොලිස්පති වාස් ගුණවර්ධන ගේ බිරිඳ කෝටිපති ව්යාපාරිකයකු පැහැර ගෙන ගොස් මරා දැමීමේ චෝදනා මත රිමාන්ඩ් බන්ධනාගාරගතව සිටියි.