Dr. Rajapakse: Mahapola resources worth Rs 50,000 mn offered to SLIIT for Rs 408 mn Arrangement to previous CJ's disclosure

         Legislator Wijeyadasa Rajapakse PC, yesterday, asserted that Mahapola resources, worth as much as Rs. 50,000 mn, had been offered to Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) for an aggregate of Rs 408 mn, on May 12, 2015, under disputable conditions. Previous Justice Minister Rajapakse said that the individuals who executed the extortion had gone to the degree of beguiling the then Chief Justice K. Sripavan, who postured for a photo in his chambers after the check for Rs 408 mn was gotten.

            MP Rajapakse said that equity K. Sripavan had been misdirected that the SLIIT was returning Rs 408 mn which it owed the Mahapola Education Trust Fund (METF). Notwithstanding that, a 25 section of land at Malabe, on which SLIIT stands, had been rented at Rs 20 mn for every annum for a time of 60 years, the Colombo District UNP MP said. 

          The UNPer was reacting to "Ex-CJ uncovered screwy way Mahapola Education Trust Fund was stripped of SLIIT' in yesterday's issue of The Island. 

             Rajapakse clarified how Mahapola assets adding up to Rs 373 mn had been put resources into SLIIT during Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga's administration. 

           The SLIIT was controlled by a Guarantee Company comprising of eight government delegates including the Treasury Secretary. Delegates included University agents. Be that as it may, later government delegates had not been selected to the Guarantee Company. Rather, it had been stuffed with pariahs, Dr. Rajapakse, stated, including that the Malabe office was assessed at Rs 408 mn and the arrangement concluded during the yahapalana 100-day program. 

      The first eight agents included Dr. Lalith R. Gamage, the then Trade Minister Kingsley Wickremaratne's child in-law and Dr. Lakshman Ratnayake, both of the Moratuwa University. 

         MP Rajapakse stressed that one-time National Security Minister Lalith Athulathmudali in an offer to guarantee straightforwardness and debasement free Mahapola venture by law guaranteed that the METF would be going by the Chief Justice. 

       Asked how he had gotten some answers concerning the purportedly illicit exchange, official Rajapakse said that not long after he had gotten the advanced education portfolio request were made. 

         Valuing the help reached out by K. Sripavan's successor, Justice Priyasath Dep, ex-offico head of METF, to ask into the issue, MP Rajapakse said that he attempted his most extreme to switch the exchange. "My endeavors were emphatically contradicted by Dr. Sarath Amunugama and Gamini Jayawickrema Perera, who spoke to the SLFP and the UNP, separately." 

         Having neglected to persuade the Cabinet of pastors, MP Rajapaksa stopped grievances with the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) and the Presidential Commission testing disputable exchanges following the difference in government. MP Rajapakse said that he gave extensive explanations to both the CIABOC and the Presidential Commission. 

      President's Counsel Rajapakse blamed the media for not giving adequate inclusion to Justice Sripavan's declaration before the Presidential Commission. The previous Justice Minister brought up that a previous Chief Justice hadn't showed up before Presidential Corruption Commission previously. 

        Dr. Rajapakse said that a more extensive request was required to get every one of those included the gigantic extortion to equity. He declared that it was as large as the treasury bond trick extortion. 

     Rajapakse lost transportation portfolio in the wake of restricting Sri Lanka giving over key Hambantota port on a 99-year-rent to China. 

        The MP said that Mahapola extortion, the primary treasury bond trick and the installment of Rs 1 bn for renting a structure to house the Agriculture Ministry had occurred under the yahapalana government in 2015. 

       The MP said that Mahapola issue ought to be high on motivation of every single ideological group challenging 2019 presidential and 2020 parliamentary surveys.