Several SJB MPs to form new group next week

Around ten Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MPs have initiated new moves to bring Members of Parliament of all parties to form a joint group to ensure economic justice, the Dailly Mirror reliably learned.

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’’Minister asked me to do, I did it’’: Supplier tells court

BY FAROOK THAJUDEEN Colombo, Dec. 28 (Daily Mirror)- Counsel appearing for the first suspect, owner of the company Isolez Biotech Pharma AG (Pvt) Ltd, involved in the substandard human immunoglobulin deal, told the court that he followed the instructions of the then Health Minister saying that "The Minister asked me to do, I did it". Counsel Jaliya Samarasinghe told this in Court before Maligakanda Magistrate Lochana Abeywickrame. The Maligakanda Magistrate queried the CID whether former Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella had prior knowledge of the drug scam that involved over Rs. 01 billion of public money. Magistrate Lochana Abeywickrama made this observation following counsel for two suspects in the case alleging that when their clients had mentioned the name of former Minister Keheliya Rambuwella as the person who had ordered them to carry out the deal of the substandard human immunoglobulin, the CID had failed to mention Minister Keheliya’s name in the statements o...

Public Security minister used shell companies to own London flats

Colombo, Dec 15 - Sri Lanka’s public security minister, Tiran Alles, is the first sitting Sri Lankan minister to be identified in the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ Pandora Papers data trove as having offshore holdings. An ICIJ analysis of the leaked records and U.K.’s public property register shows that Alles, a media tycoon and politician, owns two British Virgin Islands companies that hold properties in London. The Pandora Papers is a trove of 11.9 million leaked documents obtained by ICIJ that were at the core of a 2021 global investigation exposing the financial deals and hidden assets of politicians, celebrities, business people and criminals in more than 200 countries. The files came from 14 offshore service providers that specialized in setting up shell companies and trusts in tax havens and secrecy jurisdictions. ICIJ’s analysis shows that Alles’ Brompton Properties Ltd. owns a flat in an affluent area of London that was purchased for about $960,000 ...

Minister Alles sets deadline against drugs and underworld

Elpitiya, Dec 16 (Daily Mirror) - Public Security Minister Tiran Alles said that a special operation targeting drug-related activities and the underworld is set to commence tomorrow. Minister Alles has directed Police to take stringent measures against individuals engaged in drug smuggling and underworld operations. The Minister made these directives during a community police committee meeting in the Elpitiya Division held this morning. A group of senior officers, including Acting Inspector General of Police Deshabandu Tennakoon attended the meeting. Minister Alles urged the public to actively support the police force in their efforts to combat drug-related crimes and underworld activities. "I have given the police until June 30 only. By June 30, there should be a complete change in the drug and underworld activities in this country," he said.

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