It is quite pathetic, and embarrassing to
hear Members of Parliament debating the Avante Garde incident like a bunch of Montessori
kids. They have no clue as to what is the essence of the problem.
One is that of the efficacy of granting
AG the sole rights to the maritime security of international shipping, the principal
business of the Company. Secondly, as to the level of Money Laundering that
took place, effectively shifting earnings of the Company, as high as US$1B to
offshore bank accounts, still out of the jurisdiction of the investigating
authorities who have no clue as to how to go about it.
The US Financial Crimes unit know
exactly where the money is, in which accounts, where and under whose names, and
how much has come and gone out to whom. They only don’t know when cash has passed
who these bribes have been paid to and if in this case the Law and Order Minister,
Tilak Marapane when he was a legal adviser to AG what magnitude Rs50M+ of fees
he was paid, and no one can tell if part was bribe to bat on his behalf and
part genuine fee to defend the Company! You the reader come to your own
conclusions. Otherwise why would he defend AG in Parliament? I don’t have Hansard
to report the actual words used.
This kind of shameful behavior can occur
in Sri Lanka, because the people are incapable of questioning right and wrong,
and the Media too are bought for peanuts!
When Wijeydasa Rajapakse the Justice
Minister makes such asinine comments in Parliament when he should merely admit,
he had not instructed the AGs department in the investigation, to follow the
leads, instead of just looking at the validity of the arms transactions, see
link below, what hope we have when such brainless people even head justice! So
much for the quality of Sri Lankan lawyers, who cannot think outside the box,
only what they study!
Then the farce of PRESIFAC questioning a
former Navy Commander on how arms were handed to AG! Are they nuts? Don’t they
know what the real questions they must ask are!
Reader please consider that AG had three
former Naval Commanders as Consultants with a benefit package of at least
Rs500K a month each most of it NOT disclosed, from AG. Why might that have
been? What special help can they give AG on how it runs its Sea Marshalls? It
is just to keep them from revealing all what they know but it is up to PRESIFAC
to ask the right questions.
When you have jokers in PRECIFAC who don’t
even know how to access the internet to make themselves fully briefed on how
this operation worked, what hope have we got for an investigation to protect the
Laws of Sri Lanka, and prosecute ONLY those who have broken the law, and not go
on a witchunt.
Then how convenient for the Speaker to
allow an Adjournment Debate on this, when the whole matter is still under
investigation and may prejudice the Governments fact finding part of it. Surely
the speaker has brains to know the law on this matter. This single act will
prejudice the whole case and one day when it come to the Supreme Court it could
be thrown out of a technicality.
I would hate to say that even the
Speaker has been bought over to allow this debate, so it will save the Company
from prosecution, as NO ONE in the Media or MPs in Parliament will suspect such
by allowing the debate!
Just think about it. How sinister is the
man behind AG. He is ahead of the curve of all our lawmakers and protectors of
the Law, police and judiciary to be so clever as to run rings round them. In a
way I say good luck to him, as we are sadly endowed with a Country where fools
and idiots are at the top of almost every Institution of Government and the
Private Sector, where clever criminals can run rings round them, and the
hapless public are left to mourn the wholesale plunder of their Country by one
or other of these leaders and their cronies and or course the big time
swindlers, be they Ethanol Importers, Drug Smugglers, Foreign Income
Generators, and people unethically with exclusive rights to defraud the Country
from Revenue.
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