1st in blacklist as UDA chairman!
One of the most corrupt persons in the Rajapaksa regime, former secretary to the highways ministry, chairman of National Water Supply & Drainage Board and Road Development Authority, Ranjith Premasiri has been recommended by a brother of the president as chairman of the Urban Development Authority, reports say.
A fortnight before the presidential election, we carried a special report regarding this corrupt man, which described how he had gone to various provinces together with the then finance secrerary Dr. P.B. Jayasundara, met politicians and granted them contracts of the highways ministry.
Born in Beliatte, the hometown of the former president, Premasiri had been employed in the southern development authority in 2005 and had obtained bribes from Rs. 500 upwards at that time. He has become a very wealthy person by amassing wealth by nefarious means in the past nine years.
He has the most number of complaints of election malpractices against his name in the black book maintained by the UNP’s communication unit during the presidential election. We say with responsibility that there clearly are conspiracies to topple the new government
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