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Court Orders Seizure of Cecille's Rs. 259 Mn to Pay GK Depositors Punish Muttuhettigama now, Polls Chief tells SLFP See Page 2 Rubella vaccine claims another child’s life See page 7 `Vol. 28 No. 281 Wednesday 14th October, 2009, 32 Pages Rs. 20 Registered in Sri Lanka as a Newspaper - Late City Edition by Amreen Ameen and Amira Cader A schoolgirl in Wariyapola died on South has Historic school Sunday after being given the rubella Defacing of match commences vaccine. spoken, Rubella vaccination has been sus- Sigiri Frescoes with heart-warming pended since Monday morning, follow- Page 15 Page 10 Page 13 again! ing the death of Asanthi Vasana, a 13- opening ceremony year-old student from Minuwangete Maha Vidyalaya, Wariyapola. Addressing a press conference yes- Tiger supects terday at the Epidemiology Unit, Deputy Director General (Public on trial Health) Dr. Palitha Mahipala, said Court orders seizure of Cecille's Continued on page 6 in Paris PARIS – Tamil Tiger PBJ not bound by rebels were charged in a Paris Court yesterday for Rs. 259 mn to pay GK depositors affidavit dictated extorting money from the Tamil Diaspora in France by Court - SC by Chitra Weerarathne to fund terrorist activities By a majority decision of the Supreme Court, six judges in Sri Lanka, according to he Supreme Court yesterday ordered the State reports. to seize forthwith Rs. 259 million, credited to yesterday agreed with the Initial reports said twenty Tthe Bank Accounts of Mrs. Cecille Kotelawala decision of Chief Justice two LTTE members were and transfer the money to the 'Dedicated Account', Asoka de Silva that there was charged but more are to to pay the aggrieved depositors of the Golden Key no legal impediment cast on PBJ be arraigned within the Credit Card Pvt. Limited. The Court also ordered President Mahinda Rajapaksa course of the week. the State to implement the 'Comprehensive Payment to appoint Dr. P.B. Jayasundera as The main defendant Plan' forthwith. Secretary to the Treasury. Nadaraja Matinthiran, The depositors who have invested upto one mil- While agreeing with the judgment leader of the LTTE in lion rupees are to be repaid 75 per cent of their delivered by the Chief Justice, Justices France, along other mem- money within three months; those who have Shirani Bandaranayake, Saleem bers, is said to have deposited upto two million are to be paid within six Marsoof, K. Sripavan and P.A. exhorted nearly USD 10 months and those who have deposited over two mil- Ratnayake gave separate reasons for million from nearly 85,000 lion are to be paid within one year. their position, but Justice Shirani members of the Tamil Attorney General Mohan Peiris, PC, appeared for Tilakawardena gave a dissenting judg- the State. The rights violation application com- diaspora living in France ment. See page 3 plained that the GK credit Card Company had failed The Tamil to repay the money deposited by the petitioners. The Coordination Committee total amount deposited by the aggrieved depositor in France, a front organi- amounted to Rs. 26 billion, according to the petition. Brown to repay zation of the LTTE Romesh de Silva PC, appeared Continued on page 6 for Lalith and Cecille Kotelawala, respondents in $19,000 expense the petition and proprietor of This newly built seven-storeyed Kidney Unit in Maligawatte will be commissioned at the end of this They forged the GK Pvt. Limited. The month. (Photo-Chandrasiri Weerasinghe) claims Bench comprised Justice Shirani Tilakawardene, LONDON (AP) - In OL, AL Justice K. Sripavan and Justice President orders immediate the latest blow to Saleem Marsoof. The issue is Gordon Brown’s certificates to be mentioned again on beleaguered leader- The Nawalapitiya commissioning of new kidney unit October 23, 2009. ship, the British Police on Monday Cecille Kotelawala arrested two suspects President tug-o-war between has directed that month. prime minister is who had issued forged Mahinda Rajapaksa the Government arrangements be The GMOA being forced to repay extracts of GCE O Level yesterday ordered Medical Officers made to treat the wanted the unit for over 12,000 pounds Gordon Brown and A Level results. Protest called off that the ultra mod- Association first kid- the use of doctors ($19,000) in disputed The suspects used a by S. K. Kaluarachi and ern seven storeyed (GMOA) and the ney to treat patients claims following an audit into how forged official frank of Lalith Chaminda, Galle Corrs. kidney unit built at Health Ministry, be patient and was opposed to British lawmakers spent public money. the Principal of the a cost of Rs 450 mil- commissioned at this university profes- Dozens of lawmakers received let- Bandarawela Tamil A protest scheduled for today (14) by the lion at Maligawatte, immediately. unit, sors conducting ters Monday from Thomas Legg - who Maha Vidyalaya to issue District and Divisional Secretariat employees which had The unit was to before the kidney related med- Brown appointed to audit expense the forged extracts. against the alleged death threat on Galle District remained idle for be commissioned in end of ical research in it. claims - asking them to repay the Police investigations Secretary Asoka Jayasekera by the last several January. this Continued on money or offer further explanations have revealed that sus- Continued on page 6 months, due to a The President page 6 for why they claimed it. pects had charged Rs Legg was chosen to rewrite the 25,000 for an O Level spending rules in an effort to quell pub- extract and Rs 40,000 for Ammunition lic outrage over lawmakers’ greed for an A Level extract. Full implementation of 17th Amendment taxpayer funds. One of the suspects found in lorry Brown’s office confirmed Monday is a Pirivena School that he will pay back some money teacher. A large number needed to protect electoral process – CMEV Nittambuwa Police on Monday claimed for a maid and for decorating, of blank forged results recovered 17 rounds of T-56 ammuni- by Ifham Nizam Executive Director of the Centre for Policy but said Legg had told Brown he had extracts were also tion and 4 rounds of ammunition used Alternatives, Dr. Pakiyasothi Saravanamuthu told not broken any rules. recovered from the sus- for light machine guns hidden inside a pects. The Centre for Monitoring Election Violence a press conference in Colombo that the CMEV can that supplies water to the wipers “Mr. Brown will pay in full,” his (CMEV) yesterday strongly emphasised the impor- believed that it was only through the establish- of a lorry’s windscreen. office said. tance of the full implementation of the 17th ment of independent commissions for Elections, The lorry was detected at Polhena Brown has urged all lawmakers to World View Amendment to the Constitution as a mechanism Police and Public Service, the integrity of the Road and one suspect was arrested. repay the excessive claims identified for protecting the electoral process, particularly electoral process could be protected. Investigations are being conducted by Legg. Obama ‘dashes with regard to the violation of election laws and by a Police team headed by Gampaha Details of legislators’ claims, which the abuse of State resources. Continued on page 6 SSP Sarath Kumara. were leaked to a newspaper earlier this Palestinian hopes’ year and later released publicly, revealed how scores of politicians Pottu based weekly briefings on press Continued on page 6 www.island.lk reports:captured Tigers say The Island In the space of three weeks, critics say the !Suicide jackets wrapped in newspapers found buried in cemetery winner of this year’s by Shamindra Ferdinando Sources said that the recovery of five told The Island. Nobel Peace Prize has Although LTTE leader Velupillai explosives packed suicide jackets meant for Weekly briefings had received alienated much of the Palestinian public, Prabhakaran had informants within the mili- an operation directed against the top leader- Prabhakaran’s special attention, particularly jeopardised the politi- tary establishment, he received a weekly ship of the TMVP in the run up to elections after the army opened a front in the Vanni. cal future of a vital security update based on print media reports, for the Eastern Provincial Council shed light Sources said Prabhakaran himself had American ally in the particularly during Eelam War IV, according on the LTTE practice. The LTTE had used The directed Pottu Amman to prepare weekly West Bank and unwit- to captured LTTE cadres. Prabhakaran had Island and Divaina to wrap the deadly cargo. reports based on print media reports on the tingly boosted Hamas, received the briefing from LTTE intelligence “When we asked captured LTTE operatives to war and related issues such as foreign rela- the radical Islamist movement. wing leader Pottu Amman every Monday,they explain, they revealed Pottu Amman’s brief- tions. had told investigators. ing based on newspaper reports,” an official Continued on page 6.
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