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The “Colombo-gate” recordings of some 127,000 telephone conversations by actor turned UNP parliamentarian Ranjan Ramanayake have gone viral. In a conversation with Mr Ramanayake, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Shani Abeysekera, then Director of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), tells how he met an overseas reporter from The New York Times (NYT). “The lady was [...]
Revealed: Phone talk scandal as Ranjangate Tapes explode
The long-drawn dramatic search op done by a possibly forty-strong squad of policemen at UNP MP Ranjan Ramanayake’s home last Saturday, seeming to search for something they couldn’t exactly put their finger on, and his subsequent arrest later that evening on the charge of possessing a firearm without a valid licence, no doubt, made compelling [...]
Any kind of publicity, is better than no publicity
My dear Ranjan, I thought I must write to you not only because the entire country is talking about you but also because I don’t feel like calling you- who knows where that will lead to! I hope you are not distressed by this undue attention because as far as you are concerned, any publicity [...]
The sleazy antics of a politician and a judiciary in disrepute
Handwringing by Government politicians over leaked tape recordings of phone conversations between prosecutors, judicial officers and a United National Party politician known more for his brawn than his brain, (this worthy’s cerebral power appears to be even less than commonly perceived), is hypocritical in the extreme. Historic undermining of the judicial institution Even as they [...]
This mad, mad world we live in
So how will this world end, with a big bang or a whimper? If we are to believe that Mad Don in the White House it will not end at all unless he nukes the entire planet to the strains of the Stars and Stripes. If this world had one more like Trump who blows [...]
CID and judiciary under close govt. scrutiny
“Colombo-gate tapes” reveal backroom goings on Govt. MPs want Duminda Silva pardoned Parliamentary group discusses Ramanayake and his tapes The United National Party’s actor turned politician Ranjan Ramanayake shook Sri Lanka this week in what could be called the “Colombo-gate tapes” – some 127,000 recordings of telephone calls he made to CID top brass, [...]
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