The Hon. Arjuna Sujeewa Senasinghe, Attorney-at-Law
Arjuna Sujeewa Senasinghe accused the Government of interfering with the Judiciary, CID and Police, including by transferring judges after arrest orders. He alleged that multiple major corruption scandals had occurred during the Government’s tenure, including container, coal and multibillion-rupee scams, and argued that the Government had failed to act on its pledge to catch wrongdoers. He warned that members of the Government would face legal action after a change in administration.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 That is the problem for you. When a judge ordered arrest, what did you do? You transferred. You keep transferring judges and doing everything as you wish—the CID, the Police, the Judiciary—as you wish. And then you ask the thief’s mother. What more can one expect? In about one and a half years, how much theft took place? The container scam, coal scam, the LKR 13 billion scam, then the billion-rupee scam—all within this period. How much more is there?
¶ 02 This Government came saying it would catch thieves, but the biggest thieves are now with you. After the Government changes, you will face cases—within a year.
¶ 03 [Expunged on the order of the Chair.]
¶ 04 They have come.
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- Hansard, Tuesday, 5 May 2026 ·No. 23546 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Arjuna Sujeewa Senasinghe, Attorney-at-Law. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 5 May 2026. No. 23546. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/19917