Sunday, 10 Sep 2023
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By Manoj Colambage
Pledging allegiance to Gotabaya Rajapaksa last week, former Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe claimed he had prevented the former Defence Secretary’s arrest in the Avant Garde floating armoury case. In an explosive interview with the Sunday Observer, the Additional Solicitor General who handled the case hit back against the claim, exposing a four year old paper trail...
The first 20 minutes of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s maiden press conference at the Shangri-La ballroom last Tuesday (15) seemed the most significant.
The former Defence Secretary was called upon to deal with questions from a contentious past, including allegations of rights abuses that dogged his tenure as the official in...
The Court of Appeal last week ordered the discharge of the Sri Lanka Podujana Party (SLPP) Presidential hopeful, Gotabaya Rajapaksa and seven others in a Rs. 11.2 billion corruption case involving the Avant Garde floating armoury. The case had been filed in the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court in 2016 by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery and Corruption...
The Elections Commission has written to former Speaker of Parliament Chamal Rajapaksa seeking explanation about how the names of several foreign citizens were listed as electors at the Rajapaksa family home in Medamulana in 2005, as it continues its inquiry into an alleged voter fraud allegation, the Sunday Observer reliably learns.
On September 2, the Commission was...
The Elections Commission (EC) has launched an investigation into the allegation that non-Sri Lankan citizens hailing from the Rajapaksa ancestral home in Medamulana had been registered to vote in the 2005 presidential election, according to extracts of the electoral register in the Mulkirigala Polling Division of that year.
The inclusion of non-citizens into the...
By Manoj Colambage
Lawyers for Ahimsa Wickrematunge told the US District Court for the Central District of California last week that the man she...
Lawyers for Gotabaya Rajapaksa filed a fresh appeal at the Supreme Court last month, in a bid to stall the D.A. Rajapaksa Museum...
The preoccupation for lawyers appearing on behalf of Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Court of Appeal last Thursday, was obtaining ‘an...
Former Additional Solicitor General Shavindra Fernando is tipped to be nominated as the next Vice-President of the Bar...