The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake

Jathika Jana balawegaya· National List· 11 July 2025 ·Procedural: Points of Order - Customs Container Matter and Questions of Privilege

Corruption & Governance Reform

AI summary generated by gpt-5.5

Bimal Rathnayake rejected allegations that he was involved in releasing containers from Customs. He said earlier claims, based on a Customs trade union statement, had alleged in Parliament in January that the containers belonged to the Western Province Governor.

Verbatim record (translated)

Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English

¶ 01 First, I totally reject the allegation. I have never been involved in releasing any containers from Customs.

¶ 02 What did they first claim based on a statement by a Customs trade union? They shouted here in January saying these were the Western Province Governor’s containers.

Provenance

Source: Hansard, Friday, 11 July 2025 ·No. 1753082553092748 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
Page · column: not yet extracted — page/column anchors are not in the current dataset; the source PDF is the citable location.
Permalink: /lk/speeches/21116

View source PDF ↗ Suggest a correction

Cite as: The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 11 July 2025. No. 1753082553092748. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/21116