6 October 2021 09:40 am Views - 204
By Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera
The National Peoples’ Power (NPP) MP Vijitha Herath yesterday urged the Government to reveal the true owner of the Rosetti Ltd. in the Jersey Island.
The Company is said to have been set up by former parliamentarian Nirupama Rajapaksa and her husband Thirukumar Nadesan as exposed by the ‘Pandora Papers’.
He told Parliament that the Government cannot keep mum on the incident claiming that it was a personal account and that the Government had a responsibility to educate the people on the matter.
He said the Government should reveal who had the official registration of the Rosetti Ltd. and whether the bank account connected to it was under the name of Nirupama Rajapaksa or Thirukumar Nadesan or was it a joint-account.
“According to Pandora Papers, the account had been opened in 1991. The Money Laundering Act was enacted in Sri Lanka in 2006. It should be revealed whether money had been channelled to this account after the Money Laundering Act was enacted. How much and how the money had been channelled,” he said.
The MP said several individuals including Vidya Amarapala were listed in such papers for similar acts and said this was the first time where a politician was listed in an incident of this nature.
“The previous Government did not take any action when Vidya Amarapala’s name was revealed. He fled to Australia and the incident was not investigated thereafter,” he said.
He said the Government should reveal its stance whether action would be taken against the culprits under the Money Laundering Act if money had been channelled to the particular account after 2006.