Duminda's Bank Accounts To Be Checked

Police Spokesman Ajith Rohana said today a Court Order was obtained from the Colombo Magistrate’s Court to check all accounts held by Colombo District United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) MP Duminda Silva at several banks and financial institutions.

The Court Order was based on a statement made by narcotics kingpin ‘Wele Suda’ and included the checking of accounts held by two others as well. “The accounts belonging to Duminda Silva, Wele Suda and his wife held at 82 banks and financial institutions will be probed. During interrogations by the CID, Wele Suda revealed that he doled out money obtained from drug trafficking to Mr. Silva,” SSP Rohana told a news conference today.

He said Wele Suda is reported to have gone under two other names and as such the police would also check whether accounts were maintained under these two names as well. The SSP said the Central Bank’s Financial Investigation Unit would assist the police in investigating the suspects’ foreign accounts especially those in Pakistan and Dubai. He said since 2012 Wela Suda was believed to have smuggled into the country about a 1,000 kilos of heroin worth some eight to 10 million rupees a kilo.

“The fate which had befallen this massive amount of money obtained from drug trafficking was uncertain. Wele Suda revealed that he paid money to Mr. Silva so as to continue his smuggling unhampered. He also alleged that Lalitha Kaushaluya, who was killed in Athurugiriya had paid money to the MP. The police found an Allion Toyota Car near a house at Madiwela bought by Wele Suda from drug trafficking,” SSP Rohana said. He said investigations will be launched against Wele Suda on charges of money laundering and terrorist connections.

Duminda Silva faced Water bottle attack

The residents in the Wanathamulla housing scheme staged a protest at Baseline road today (15) against the abduction of an individual by a group of people that arrived in a white van.

The abducted individual has been identified as Samaraweera Sunil, a resident of Wanathamulla housing scheme and a father of five.

The residents of Wanathamulla who gathered to Dematagoda railway ground commenced the protest this afternoon demanding the authorities to find him and bring him back alive.

The protesters alleged that Samaraweera Sunil was abducted in connection to the dismantling of their residences and removing them.

The Police Special Task Force was deployed in the Baseline road and even though the protesters dispersed STF officer remained in the location.

Attorney-at-law Sunila Watagala who is appearing on behalf of the residents regarding the dismantling of Wanathamulla housing scheme was also seen at the location.

He stated that security officials, who visited the area on the day before yesterday have met Sunil.

The protesters vowed that they will not stop the protest until Sunil was handed back to them.

DIG Anura Senanayake also visited the location and there was a discussion on returning the abducted individual within 45 minutes.

The protesters blocked the road again around 4.00 pm and dispersed after a while.

Meanwhile, the media reported that the abducted individual was released short while ago.

MP Duminda Silva was there to talk to protesters but they refused him and shouted " ADO KUDDA ".  Duminda Silva faced Water bottle attack as well and then he ran away with body guards.

Duminda to save the sinking Touchwood

Monitoring MP of the Defense Ministry R. Duminda Silva has been appointed as a Non-Executive Independent Director in the Touchwood Investments PLC which has fallen into crisis.

This appointment has been made to be effective from the 23rd September. After this news, it is reported that the share prices of the Touchwood company have started to go up since today morning.

The battered stock price of TWOD shot up to Rs. 3.10 up by 72% or Rs. 1.30 from its previous close. More interestingly, a record 26 million shares which is a 25% stake of the company changed hands via 1,717 trades for Rs. 66 million.

Considering the all-time low price of 90 cents a few weeks ago, yesterday’s gain is a huge windfall for those who traded on the stock of late.

The Maloneys have been shedding their stakes in recent months; so has another shareholder, ASPIC Corporation, also connected party to Maloney.

Apart from this, Mr. Lanka Wijendra Kiwlegedara, a head of a mineral export company approved by the BOI has been appointed as the Touchwood's new Executive Director.

Sri Lanka Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) which represents the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) had recently suspended the share transactions of the Touchwood Investments PLC.

Duminda Silva : from Nawaloka to Temple trees

It is reported that MP Duminda Silva who was released on bail, had left the Nawaloka Hospital and went to meet the President at the temple trees, to receive greetings. However, Presidential media spokesperson Mr. Mohan Samaranayaka stated that no such meeting was held up until 1.00pm.

It says that the motorcade carrying Mr. Silva has gone in the Navam Mavatha and then turned in to Galle face direction and then entered the Temple trees.

It is interesting to note that after coming down to Sri Lanka from Mt. Elizabeth Hospital Singapore on a wheel chair, Mr. Silva, was able to walk out from the Navaloka hospital.

 

It is reported that a large gathering of people were waiting outside to welcome him with garlands of flowers.

Mean while Ms. Hirunika Premachandra says that no fair treatement has been done to her since the murder of her father, Mr. Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra.

Holding a media briefing today (27) at her home, Ms. Hirunika made this remark while expressing her views on Mr. Duminda Silva’s departure from the Hospital on bail.

She further stated that by taking the current physical condition of Mr. Silva, she is suspicious about whether he actually suffered grievous bodily harm during the shooting incident in Kolonnawa.  

Hirunika urges to visit Duminda

Ms. Hirunika Premachandra has told the Rawaya News paper that she has terrible suspicions about the “critical health condition” of MP Duminda Silva.

She says that it is contradictory to his legal advisers’ statement that Mr. Silva is in a critical psychiatric state when it is reported that he had summoned the provincial council members in the Kotikawatte area to discuss the political plans in the future.

She has further stated that she has asked permission from the court to visit Mr. Silva to check out his “real” mental status.

Ms. Hirunika says that these continuous contradictions pave the way to suspicion of justice.

People want to know where Duminda is - Hirunika

Hirunika Premachandra today said the matter of real public interest was the whereabouts of Duminda Silva.

“ I don’t think the people want to know about an argument I had with our neighbour; I think its more important for them to know the whereabouts of Duminda Silva who is accused of murdering four people and leaving their families destitute” she said.

She also said her attire was not of interest to the public.

“My attire is not of any interest to the public. That warning was given to all those present in court that day, but what people really need to know is the condition of Duminda Silva and where he is kept in hiding”

Duminda Silva arrested

Colombo Additional Magistrate Mr. Sandun Vitarane today visited the room where the main suspect in the assassination of  Bharatha Lakshman Premanadra and four others, Mr. Duminda Silva, MP was in the Nawaloka Hospital,  and ordered that he be placed in remand  custody until the 14th.

When the case was called today, the counsel for both sides and CID officials presented their facts to Courts and  thereafter the Magistrate stated  that the condition of Mr. Duminda Silva will be ascertained and thereafter an Order given.

Accordingly the Magistrate came to the Nawaloka Hospital today. The attorney for Mr.Duminda Silva stated that consequent to the operation undergone by Mr. Duminda De Silva, if he leaves hospital, the wounds can be infected and could even lead to death.

Having considered the viewpoints of both parties, , the Magistrate directed that Mr. Duminda Silva be placed in remand custody until the 14th.

Mr. Duminda Silva returned to the island at dawn yesterday, following his treatment abroad  for gunshot injuries.

Duminda Silva is back

UPFA Parliamentarian Duminda Silva who was in Singapore for medical treatment has reportedly arrived in the country in an Emirates flight early today, informed sources said.

They said that he had arrived in flight number EK 349 from Singapore and left the air port in a wheelchair.

MP Silva who was undergoing treatment at the Mount Elizabeth hospital, Singapore, had left the hospital in January this year and reportedly stayed at an apartment in Singapore.

He was critically injured the Mulleriyawa shooting incident in which Presidential Adviser Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra was killed in October 2011.

During the court proceedings the CID informed the court that Silva could not recall about the incident in Mulleriyawa. Mr. Silva is the prime suspect of Premachandra assassination case.

Following the shooting incident at Mulleriyawa Silva was admitted to the Jayawardanepura Hospital in Colombo and later he was admitted to the Mount Elizabeth hospital in Singapore November 01 in 2011.

On February 19, this year the Attorney General advised the CID to file charges against 13 suspects including parliamentarian Duminda Silva over the murder of Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra and two others in Kollonnawa.

Then the CID filed charges of murder, conspiracy, attempted murder and unlawful assembly with a common intention against the suspects before the Colombo Magistrates court.

Hirunika ‘applauds’ AG’s decision

Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra’s daughter Hirunika speaking to the media outside the Colombo Magistrate’s  Court today said she applauded the Attorney General’s decision to direct the CID to file cases against MP Duminda Silva and 13 others in connection with the killing of her father.

“People had witnessed a breakdown in the judicial system in the country. No one can deny that. I once said that if justice is meted out in this case, people will come to trust the judicial system again. We never expected a decision like this. I did not have any confidence in justice being meted out. I applaud the AG for standing up for justice,” Premachandra said.

She said until her last breath she would continue to seek justice for her slain father.

AG directs CID to file charges against Duminda

The Attorney General advised today the CID to file charges against 13 suspects including parliamentarian Duminda Silva over the murder of Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra and two others in Kollonnawa.

Then the CID filed charges of murder, conspiracy, attempted murder and unlawful assembly with a common intention against the suspects before the Colombo Magistrates court today.

Counsel Upul Kumarapperuma appearing for Mr. Premachandra’s wife asked Court to issue warrants for the arrest of Parliamentarian Duminda Silva and D.M.P.J. Galaboda because the Magistrate had the Jurisdiction to do so.
 

President Counsel Hemantha Warnakulasuriya appearing for Duminda Silva said his client was a victim in the incident who had sustained deadly injuries to his skull. He said the doctors who treated him had asserted that at least another 18 months would be needed for his client to recover.

He said during the inquiry before the preceding Magistrate the counsel for Mr. Premachandra’s wife moved to issue warrants for the arrest of Duminda Silva which the court had declined.
 

Mr. Warnakulasuriya said  at this stage the court could not issue a warrant against Duminda Silva and moved for a longer date to hear the case as the prosecution has to go through a large number of documents and statements before filing the extracts in court

Duminda will be free - Hirunika

At the rate things are happening, the main suspect of her father’s assassination case, will go Scot free, states Miss Hirunika Premachandra.

She was responding to media queries today at Hulftsdorp Courts premises, after the case was called today ( 05) pertaining to the assassination of her father, Mr Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra and four others.

The affidavit of her father’s driver Bola Saman stating that it was her father who fired first, was false, she added. Why should he go back on his earlier version if not for the fact that money has influenced such a decision, she said.

Duminda should take responsibility of attack - Hirunika

Hirunika Premachandra told media outside the Chief Magistrate’s Courts today that Duminda Silva and his supporters must take responsibility if something happened to her or her supporters.

“If any sort of injury was caused to me or my supporters, then Duminda Silva and his gang must take the responsibility. We also must live in Kollonawa,” she said.

 “The president had said that he was unaware of any conflict between Duminda Silva and my father. But now he knows that there was a conflict now that a killing had taken place. So I urged the president to take an action on this matter.”

She also said her office was attacked and her cutouts had been destroyed after she had organized a protest recently

Hirunika’s house attacked

A group of persons had thrown had attacked the house of the daughter of former parliamentarian Mr. Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra, Miss Hirunika Premachandra last night (03).

Apart from rocks and debris, excreta too was thrown at her home. Yesterday (03), while a Bodhi Pooja took place to invoke blessings on MP Duminda Silva, the daughter of slain presidential advisor Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra staged a protest just two kilometres away.

The religious activity on behalf of the MP, who is receiving treatment at a Singapore Hospital, took place at Kande Vihara at Gothatuwa. At Kolonnawa junction, Hirunika Premachandra agitated against the Bodhi Pooja.

A gathering of around 1,000, including the father and close relatives of MP Silva, attended the religious activity. Premachandra and four others were killed and MP Silva sustained serious injuries in the Kolonnawa shootout in October last year.

First shots were fired from Bharatha’s side - CID

The CID informed the court yesterday (Dec. 22) it was from the Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra’s side that the first shots were fired in the Mulleriyawa gunfight.

SP of the CID Shani Abeysekara told Colombo additional magistrate Prasanna Alwis that two spent cartridges found from the scene confirmed that.

The cartridges were from the bullets fired from sergeant J. Gamini, the bodyguard of the slain presidential advisor, said the police officer.

The court was taking up the murder of the presidential advisor and three others in the incident on October 08.
Sergeant Gamini is still receiving treatment at Narahenpita Police Hospital under CID custody.

MP Duminda Silva, also injured in the shootout, is being treated at a private hospital in Singapore.

He was taken there November 02 in a jet specially equipped to transport patients, police said.

President’s counsel Hemantha Warnakulasuriya, who represents MP Silva, on November 28 produced 19 photographs of a scan, showing injuries to his brain and skull as well and entry and exit points of the bullets.

His submission also claimed the firing took place as the MP was looking at the ground, and after an exchange of blows, Premachandra fell to the ground first and MP Silva fell on top of him.

The PC said it was questionable who had shot the MP, adding that everything had happened within a space of 30 seconds.

All the other shots were fired after the MP was shot, he claimed.

The case will be taken up again on January 03.

source : srilankamirror

Three months leave for Duminda

Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa today (Dec. 16) approved three months leave from parliamentary session attendance for MP Duminda Silva, who is receiving overseas treatment.

He was injured in the Mulleriyawa gunfight on October 08.

Leader of the House Nimal Siripala de Silva made the request from the speaker.

Accordingly, MP Silva will have leave from parliament for three months from December 23.

Anarkali and Lakshmi ( Video )

Anarkali akarsha had to face a hard time during a live programme because of a question from a lady which related to Duminda Silva.

Court order given to arrest Duminda Silva

Courts have ordered the CID special investigation unit to immediately arrest MP Duminda Silva in connection with the gunning down of presidential advisor Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra and three others on October 08.

Colombo additional magistrate Prasanna de Alwis today (Nov. 15) issued the order.

Officials of the CID special investigation unit were absent at the hearing, which forced the court to put off the hearing for five minutes.
 

After the hearing resumed, ASP Shani Abeysekara of the CID told the court there was inadequate evidence to arrest MP Silva.

However, considering the evidence placed before him, the additional magistrate ordered the immediate arrest of the MP.

Making submissions on behalf of the aggrieved party, president’s counsel Tirantha Waraliyadde said the CID officials’ avoidance of the hearing was a demeaning act and asked that warrants be issued against them.

MP Silva is now said to be receiving treatment at a private hospital in Singapore.

He was taken there on November 02 by a specially chartered jet.

Duminda Silva admitted to Singapore hospital

MP Duminda Silva, injured in the Mulleriyawa political gunfight, was admitted to a private hospital in Singapore last night (Nov. 01), said a family member.

In the same evening, he got discharged from the Sri Jayewardenepura Hospital, where he had been treated since the October 08 incident.

Relatives had been hoping to take him to Australia for further treatment, but doctors had advised against taking him on a long journey.

It has now been decided to bring down US and Australian specialists to the Singapore hospital, said the family member.

The MP was accompanied by his father Lal Silva and brother Raynor Silva in the private flight to Singapore.

Duminda taken to Singapore for further treatment

MP Duminda Silva was discharged from the Sri Jayawardenapura hospital and was taken to Singapore for further medical treatment last night (November 1), Specialist Dr. Maheshi Wijeratne stated.

Duminda Silva’s condition has greatly improved, the doctor further stated.

Meanwhile, hospital sources confirmed that the MP was discharged from the Sri Jayawardenapura Hospital at around 9.15 p.m. last night.

MP Silva was injured in a shooting that occurred in Kolonnawa last month which claimed the life of former MP Baratha Lakshman Premachandra.

earlier it reported MP Duminda Silva has taken to Australia... dailymirror reported in the morning, But according to Derana report MP has taken to Singapore.

Duminda Silva discharged and to be taken Australia for treatment ???

MP Duminda Silva who was being treated at the Sri Jayewardenepura Hospital was taken out of the hospital a while ago to be taken abroad for further treatment, a day after President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited him, hospital sources said. He had been released from the hospital on the request of relatives. It is learnt that he is to be flown to Australia for further treatment.  

President Rajapaksa visited Mr. Silva on Monday night. Mr. Silva was seriously injured in the shooting incident in Kolonnawa on October 8. (Kelum Bandara)

source : dailymirror