President Maithripala Sirisena said that he had opposed Kapila Chandrasena and Nalaka Godahewa being appointed as Chairmen to SriLankan Airlines and Sri Lanka Insurance respectively.
Sirisena made these remarks during a meeting he had with the Foreign Correspondents Association (FCA) on Friday.
Kapila Chandrasena was at the centre of several high-profile cases of corruption that took place during his tenure as Chairman of SriLankan airlines in the Rajapaksa regime. Some allegations of corruption were substantiated under Sirisena’s own Presidential Commission of Inquiry.
Nalaka Godahewa was also accused for his alleged involvement in conspiring to misappropriate LKR 5 million of funds belonging to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of which he was the then chairman. He was notoriously associated with the Krishh transaction where allegations were levelled that large amounts of monies were purportedly requested by members of the ruling Rajapaksa regime. Godahewa is also out on bail related to another matter.
President Sirisena further said that the judicial inquiries against the alleged financial frauds that took place during Rakapaksa regime will continue.
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