HT,  Wed Mar  3 12:00:29 EST 2010

    Former Sri Lankan cricket captain and opposition member Hashan Tillakaratne was questioned by the police and his house searched in connection with investigations against former army chief Sarath Fonseka on Wednesday.
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Film actors became politicians (Reagan, Clint, Jaylalitha, Vijaya Kumaranatunnge, etc).  Great sportsmen such as Imran Khan became politicians.  Arjuna followed his father’s foot steps and became a politicians. Like manner, Sanath and Hashan became politicians and batting on a soggy pitch

"Pahara minihek" and "Kalaweddek". " Oo pitipasse paththen avilla, kanuwe dige ei danagahagena magen samawa illanna
Great words from the man who failed to grab the Presidency.  $527,000 in cash, landrover defenders, unpaid satellite phone bills over 2million rupees bilking the Army making private calls on state expense to US, luxury vehicles costing way more than salary possible in US all that the JVP touted as coming from an honest man fit to be President. Wonder if Hashan would have been made minister of sports or SLC Head if his relative  by marriage SF won.. So Hashan takes off to India to hide?

Out of all this, I hope JVP murderers get the treatment they deserve on April 8th and get less than 4 seats in Parliament. Then some of them can go back to being pickpockets.  Why has SF or his wife or family not been able to explain the $527,000 to people because of all the people he claimed he was honest. We know the govt is full of crooks but if the person who wanted to become President (and then now wants to become our PM) is also tainted. corrupt and arrogant beyond belief who are the people going to vote for? Not the jokers in the JVP; At least RW is honest but he is a loser.. So we are caught between a rock, a hardplace and a cruel hotplate now..

What was Hashan's role in laundering money? or in HiCorp?

This is just terrible. SF should have thought about the consequences of his action before his own ego. Now the whole family is suffering.  I am sure there were lot of people who made money including other military men and politicians, but SF got caught with his pants down. At least when you know, you are as corrupt as the man next door, smart thing to do is stay away from trouble and not run a campaing based on eliminating corruption pretending to be a sawn!


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Dammika wrote:

This is just terrible. SF should have thought about the consequences of his action before his own ego. Now the whole family is suffering.  I am sure there were lot of people who made money including other military men and politicians, but SF got caught with his pants down. At least when you know, you are as corrupt as the man next door, smart thing to do is stay away from trouble and not run a campaign based on eliminating corruption pretending to be a sawn!

I think anyone standing up to the royal family needs to look at the consequence of their actions not just to them but may be a few generation to come as well. Unlike other regimes this royal family will go to any extent possible to keep their rule in tact and you better not have any skeletons in the cupboard(or in the bank). Actually when you think about it with all his faults we should probably admire RW for getting up every morning and putting up that smile of his after the nightly dose of humiliation and bullying of him by the state media and their hit men. I think it takes a thick skin to be able to stand up to that without your head exploding.  

It looks like the whole police force together with the CID has only one job these days which is to go after SF. Assuming all the financial irregularities are true by the SF family, I would really like the govt to give us the value of the contracts given to Hicorp intl. I am guessing its pretty trivial stuff that they have supplied and considering the cost of goods the profit are probably trivial too. Compare that with what the ministers are earning from tenders and the multi billion rupee scandals like the VAT makes people wonder whether this is nothing but a political witch hunt rather than putting the house in order. What was our defense secretary doing all these years? Isn't he the chief accounting officer of the Defense Ministry? I want every rogue caught but lets do it in order of how much was stolen and i bet there wont be anyone left to cast the first stone at SF.


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anybody who crosses the king's line should expect these witch huntings.

Negombo wrote:

anybody who crosses the king's line should expect these witch huntings.

and when such things happen, its all SF's fault. He should have thought of the consequences...

votercooray wrote:

I want every rogue caught but lets do it in order of how much was stolen and i bet there wont be anyone left to cast the first stone at SF.

Now I KNOW you wont be casting anything at SF except perhaps flower petals - and all of us will be languishing in jail when SF comes to power anyway- but isn't that the way it is actually being done ?

AFAIK, that Finance Company feller (Golden Key etc) and henchmen was netted first for the quantity/value of his wrongdoing is very high and affected thousands of depositors/savers
Now they are working their way down from there - it seems that way to me, certainly.

Sorry to make a comment about SF in this Tillekeratne thread (in my defence, I was not the first) BUT.......
 
are you saying it's perfectly OK for SF to have all these monies with no explanation ?

Isn't it passing strange that every man on the street seems to know, to the penny, the exact value of so-called corruption on Rajapakse side (or even if they don't it's automatically assumed to be many times tha National Budget) but when it comes to SF., it's a case of "GOSL should release the figures and anyway, it's probably trivial"

everybody is interested in the undeclared personal money of sf, but nobody want to talk about the day light robbery of billions of $ of our public money.

http://www.lankatruth.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4874:2-more-aircrafts-to-mihinair-that-devoured-rs-3200-million-within-a-year&catid=35:local&Itemid=62

shouldn't CID question why massive public money is spent on white elephants over and over?

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Later, Hashan came on his own to us and we recorded his statement," the officer said.

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proximus wrote:

votercooray wrote:

I want every rogue caught but lets do it in order of how much was stolen and i bet there wont be anyone left to cast the first stone at SF.

Now I KNOW you wont be casting anything at SF except perhaps flower petals - and all of us will be languishing in jail when SF comes to power anyway- but isn't that the way it is actually being done ?

AFAIK, that Finance Company feller (Golden Key etc) and henchmen was netted first for the quantity/value of his wrongdoing is very high and affected thousands of depositors/savers
Now they are working their way down from there - it seems that way to me, certainly.

Sorry to make a comment about SF in this Tillekeratne thread (in my defence, I was not the first) BUT.......
 
are you saying it's perfectly OK for SF to have all these monies with no explanation ?

Isn't it passing strange that every man on the street seems to know, to the penny, the exact value of so-called corruption on Rajapakse side (or even if they don't it's automatically assumed to be many times tha National Budget) but when it comes to SF., it's a case of "GOSL should release the figures and anyway, it's probably trivial"

The 25 billion Golden key feller is out on bail right while the Army commander who planned a defeat of LTTE is in prison, with little ventilation and no charges yet? majority of the people arrested with SF have been released with absolutely no charges filed? He has been accused for plotting a coup with JVP and UNP at Cinnomon lake but for some reason only he is in prison? Now how about that plan to kill the president, his brothers and family members? May be he just too smart that he can plan and execute all this by himself. May be i am too naive to see the politics of everything rather than the good hearts of the royal family.

Of course if SF is a rogue he should be sent to prison but how can u ask him to explain how he got the money when he is in prison with no charges?

I am sure i am not the first to cast rose petals at SF. I thought someone else called him the best army commander and even invited to cut a cake at temple trees. I cant beat that!

We were sold this fantastic idea that Lanka Logistics purchased all the military procurement and now we are told the army commander can buy anything less than 25 million. But can someone tell me how many planes, tanks, multi- barrel rockets and guns did Danuna Tilekeratne supply to the army? May be the answer is NONE. And i bet the President's relatives supplying everything from computers to the govt, Getting Wifi internet license and been local agents to Katunayaka Expressway project is only a co-incidence.


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VC wrote; The Army commander who planned a defeat of LTTE is in prison, with little ventilation

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“A team of officers from the inquiries and investigations department of the HRC visited the General last week to see for ourselves whether his living conditions are satisfactory. We were satisfied but have submitted certain recommendations,” the HRC source said.

http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/news/2007-hrc-submits-report-on-fonseka.html

Must be a gang of MR & Gota.
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votercooray wrote:

Dammika wrote:

This is just terrible. SF should have thought about the consequences of his action before his own ego. Now the whole family is suffering.  I am sure there were lot of people who made money including other military men and politicians, but SF got caught with his pants down. At least when you know, you are as corrupt as the man next door, smart thing to do is stay away from trouble and not run a campaign based on eliminating corruption pretending to be a sawn!

I think anyone standing up to the royal family needs to look at the consequence of their actions not just to them but may be a few generation to come as well. Unlike other regimes this royal family will go to any extent possible to keep their rule in tact and you better not have any skeletons in the cupboard(or in the bank). Actually when you think about it with all his faults we should probably admire RW for getting up every morning and putting up that smile of his after the nightly dose of humiliation and bullying of him by the state media and their hit men. I think it takes a thick skin to be able to stand up to that without your head exploding.  

It looks like the whole police force together with the CID has only one job these days which is to go after SF. Assuming all the financial irregularities are true by the SF family, I would really like the govt to give us the value of the contracts given to Hicorp intl. I am guessing its pretty trivial stuff that they have supplied and considering the cost of goods the profit are probably trivial too. Compare that with what the ministers are earning from tenders and the multi billion rupee scandals like the VAT makes people wonder whether this is nothing but a political witch hunt rather than putting the house in order. What was our defense secretary doing all these years? Isn't he the chief accounting officer of the Defense Ministry? I want every rogue caught but lets do it in order of how much was stolen and i bet there wont be anyone left to cast the first stone at SF.

The problem is SF knowing very well he piled up on money, threw the first stone, and then people like yourself including bought into the idea of SF being squeky clean dove (or rather swan) and ran on a massive corruption platform, it is too bad how things turned around but still you cannot accept that SF is no better than the rest of them. Is RogerThis the only man who supported SF who has an unbias opinion here?  At least those of us who wanted MR to win know that politicians are corrupt including MR, but got to give the man a chance since he has done something for the country and not get sold to people who are just pretentious. Unfortunately SF sold himself very short due to his extreme ego and need for revenge. With MR, i expect no miracles, if he says he is going to defeat corruption just the same way he did terrorism, i will not hold my breath on it, I only have a tiny hope on that but what i am sure of is his desire to develop the nation and i believe he will do it but he needs the support of people to do that, not to drag him down his feet all the time on the basis of "we just don't like him"

My father told me, when JRJ campainged for 77 election, his line was to create a Dharmishta Samajayak so my father said that very moment he knew JRJ was going to make a mess. When a man himself holds no value to what he preaches, how can you expect anything good to come out of it? With regard to the recent election, I believed back then i still believe now, if the election results had turned the other way around, the out come would have been far worse. Political witch hunt as you say would have been much more damaging.

P.S. Don't break your heart over RW. I myself call him an 1d1ot time to time, but really he is not a fool. The real fool is everyone to see while RW has yet survived another round of ugly politics. He should be a contestant for the Survivor show.



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votercooray wrote:

The 25 billion Golden key feller is out on bail right while the Army commander who planned a defeat of LTTE is in prison, with little ventilation and no charges yet?

Bail was granted on condition that they would agree to repay the depositors by putting  up their personal assets - it seems a perfectly valid legal agreement to me. Remember that it took around 11 months for such a thing to take place.

SF has been suffering without air-conditioning for I think less than two months., one would expect a tough battlefield commander like him to be able to withstand such rigors when a aged and ailing Kotelawala managed to do so apparently with ease.

If the majority of people have been released, it simply proves that Due Process is alive and well in SL, regardless of how many would prefer to believe otherwise

There are no "Good Hearts" anywhere in this game - it is "When in power, try to hold on to it by any means possible, when not in power, try to grab it by any means necessary"

>> "When a man himself holds no value to what he preaches, how can you expect anything good to come out of it?"

>> "When in power, try to hold on to it by any means possible"

Apt descriptions of MR&bros ...