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Radar- Gate: Kickbacks to Foneska’s Danuna in China Radar Deal: Eight Questions To The General
Colombo, 27 December, (Asiantribune.com):
General Fonseka - has to answer our questions
By now it has become a set routine for Presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka to deny any wrong doing as army commander.
But his every denial prompts Asian Tribune to dig deep into his past and unearth something to unsettle him. Yet, instead of offering his side, the retired general goes into an overdrive to run down Asian Tribune in interviews to various Sinhala publications.
Why he is not coming forward to articulate his denial in the Asian Tribune itself remains a puzzle. Is it because politicians don’t generally like to send a rebuttal to publications as the editors have the inherent right to put each sentence of the denial under a microscope and juxtapose the denials with the original allegations.
Media pundits and commentators aver that the former army chief is not serving his own cause by not using AT columns to put forth his side.
The non-denial through Asian Tribune is not a disincentive to AT though.
We have just come across a Radar Gate -kickbacks in a radar deal.
Like in many other shady deals that marked the tenure of Fonseka as army chief, the radar deal also involved his son-in-law Danuna Tilakaratne and his company Hicorp.
Now that Danuna is in Colombo, the CID should have no difficulty to find out the ‘truth’ from him, even if the father-in-law prefers to observe silence.
On the Chinese side, CETC International Co. ltd acted as the supplier of radar with Hicorp as its local agent. The kick back was 10 per cent of the deal value.
Asian Tribune’s investigations show that the Chinese company entered the fray as General Fonseka insisted on buying SLC-2 Weapon Locating Radar as a replacement for American made ANTPQ – 36 version radars in Sri Lankan service.
For reasons unclear, the general rejected plans to refurbish the American Radars. He even cold shouldered representatives of American company Raytheon, which had come forward to refurbish ANTPQ-36 version and certify that refurbishment would give them a long life.
Sri Lankan army had bought four of these radars to locate enemy artillery and mortar. Two radars were acquired in 1996 and two more were procured in 1999 as the threat from LTTE Tigers and their mortar fire loomed large on the horizon.
Army sources are unwilling to hazard a guess as to why the general favoured Chinese radars ignoring Raytheon offer.
From a purely technical point, American offer was sound. It would have cost in May 2006 the Sri Lanka exchequer American dollars 1.6 million.
The Chinese deal cost the country very dearly.
Read More at
http://www.asiantribune.com/news/2009/12/27/radar-gate-kickbacks-foneska%E2%80%99s-danuna-china-radar-deal-eight-questions-general
Colombo, 27 December, (Asiantribune.com):
By now it has become a set routine for Presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka to deny any wrong doing as army commander.
But his every denial prompts Asian Tribune to dig deep into his past and unearth something to unsettle him. Yet, instead of offering his side, the retired general goes into an overdrive to run down Asian Tribune in interviews to various Sinhala publications.
Why he is not coming forward to articulate his denial in the Asian Tribune itself remains a puzzle. Is it because politicians don’t generally like to send a rebuttal to publications as the editors have the inherent right to put each sentence of the denial under a microscope and juxtapose the denials with the original allegations.
Media pundits and commentators aver that the former army chief is not serving his own cause by not using AT columns to put forth his side.
The non-denial through Asian Tribune is not a disincentive to AT though.
We have just come across a Radar Gate -kickbacks in a radar deal.
Like in many other shady deals that marked the tenure of Fonseka as army chief, the radar deal also involved his son-in-law Danuna Tilakaratne and his company Hicorp.
Now that Danuna is in Colombo, the CID should have no difficulty to find out the ‘truth’ from him, even if the father-in-law prefers to observe silence.
On the Chinese side, CETC International Co. ltd acted as the supplier of radar with Hicorp as its local agent. The kick back was 10 per cent of the deal value.
Asian Tribune’s investigations show that the Chinese company entered the fray as General Fonseka insisted on buying SLC-2 Weapon Locating Radar as a replacement for American made ANTPQ – 36 version radars in Sri Lankan service.
For reasons unclear, the general rejected plans to refurbish the American Radars. He even cold shouldered representatives of American company Raytheon, which had come forward to refurbish ANTPQ-36 version and certify that refurbishment would give them a long life.
Sri Lankan army had bought four of these radars to locate enemy artillery and mortar. Two radars were acquired in 1996 and two more were procured in 1999 as the threat from LTTE Tigers and their mortar fire loomed large on the horizon.
Army sources are unwilling to hazard a guess as to why the general favoured Chinese radars ignoring Raytheon offer.
From a purely technical point, American offer was sound. It would have cost in May 2006 the Sri Lanka exchequer American dollars 1.6 million.
The Chinese deal cost the country very dearly.
Read More at
http://www.asiantribune.com/news/2009/12/27/radar-gate-kickbacks-foneska%E2%80%99s-danuna-china-radar-deal-eight-questions-general
