Hon. Sajith Premadasa - Leader of the Opposition
Hon. Sajith Premadasa requested a government response on illegal online lending apps, citing harassment by such operators and the reported suicide of Gimhaya Sewwandi from Welagedara, Attanagalla. He named several alleged illegal loan apps, tabled a letter listing them, and asked what measures the Government will take to stop these operations and inform Parliament.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Deputy Speaker, please grant me one minute.
¶ 02 Hon. Deputy Speaker, I make an appeal and seek your direction for a reply to an issue I have repeatedly raised but have not yet received an answer: the damage caused by illegal online loans.
¶ 03 Recently, due to online loan mafia harassment, a young woman, Gimhaya Sewwandi, from Welagedara in the Attanagalla Divisional Secretariat, took her own life. The country and this Parliament should know this. Here are some names of these illegal apps exploiting our people: CashMate, DrCash, Smart Credit, SkyWallet, DaraLoan, Sahana Mithuru Wallet, Freedom-Cash, CashGedara, MegaLoan, LoanPal, MyKredit, InsCash, Kreditone+, Clickredit, MegaWallet. These are illegal operations. I request a prompt government response: what steps will be taken to end this illegal online loan mafia? I table this letter with the names. Please inform the House of the measures.
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- Hansard, Thursday, 13 November 2025 ·No. 22816 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: Hon. Sajith Premadasa - Leader of the Opposition. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 13 November 2025. No. 22816. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/27007