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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gonta999" data-source="post: 9838040" data-attributes="member: 255981">Denwath lokka muwa cut karayda???? nodaking keriya.....Mervyn’s secretary, 2 cops, remanded for extortion  Three senior police officers transferred    Suspect left minister’s staff on Thursday – Press Secy April 11, 2011, 9:59 pm   By Lal  Gunasekera  Three top police officials have been transferred with immediate  effect over their failure to take action against extortionists.  Officers  of the Colombo Crime Division on Sunday arrested Public  Relations  Minister Mervyn Silva’s Parliament Affairs Secretary Jayasena   Mudiyanselage Buddhi and three others, including two policemen, for an  alleged  attempt to extort money from a Tamil businessmen to the tune of  five million  rupees in Grandpass.  All suspects were produced in Courts yesterday and remanded till  April 18.  The  Secretary had arrived in a vehicle belonging to the ministry  with two  policemen in uniform to collect the protection money when they were   arrested.  Preliminary investigations have revealed that the  two policemen  had obtained permission from their superiors to go with  the main suspect.  The Colombo Crime Division arrested the two policemen, the  Secretary and another person.  DIG  Prasanna Nanayakkara was appointed the new DIG Western  Province (North  Range), Ananda Wijesuriya SSP (Kelaniya Division) and Mangala   Dehideniya Peliyagoda HQI.   The officers who were  transferred have been accused of not  taking action against the  extortionists at the Peliyagoda Fish Market.  Police  Headquarters had to deploy the CCD and Special Task Force  officials to  curtail the operations of the extortionists at the Fish market.  The  police officers who were transferred are DIG Western  Province (North  Range), A. Dayananda, SSP (Kelaniya Division) Kithsiri Ganegama  and  Peliyagoda HQI S. Perera.  Contacted for comment, Minister  Mervyn Silva’s Press Secretary  told The Island that the main suspect,  now in remand, had left the minister’s  staff on Thursday. He said there  was a conspiracy to politically destroy his  minister. He said Minister  Silva had ordered the police to arrest anyone  suspected of involvement  in extortion. However, when asked to name the so-called  ex-secretary  to the minister, the Press Secretary refused to answer our query  and  cut off the line.  The next question we wanted to pose to him  was: "if the  secretary concerned had left the ministerial staff on  Thursday, how could he  have used his official vehicle and influenced  the police to release two  constables to accompany him on his extortion  mission two days later, on Sunday?"  The Island hopes either Minister De  Silva or his press secretary will answer  this question.</blockquote>

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