(Lanka-e-News -06.Oct.2015, 11.30PM) Following the publication of a report by Lanka e news on 1 st October regarding Champika Karunaratne alias ‘Kappam Champika’ , the leader of the extortion team of Namal Rajapakse ,copious information about him is now flowing in.
According to this information, a young legal assistant of Namal by the name of Ms. Sujani Bogallagama who was involved in Namal’s operations of illicit deals and extortion collections was enlisted by Champika in his extortion activities. She was working in the company NR Associates which belonged to Namal , and subsequently she had been a lover of Champika. It is Bogallagama who had carried out Namal’s Kris deals.
Namal Rajapakse had also found jobs in 5 government Institutions for Champika to facilitate their secret deals. Champika had therefore collected five salaries. Although more than one salary payment to an individual by the State sector is illegal , because the State sector officials were in fear of Namal they have okayed these illegal payments.
Champika had been a President’s coordinating secretary at the Port . His sole and whole duty was releasing the smuggled heroin and ethanol containers into the country without any inspection . Towards this the Customs had been used , and former Customs Director General Jagath Premalal Wijeweera had provided all the assistance in these rackets, according to reports.
The ex Customs Director General Premalal Wijeweera had told his subordinates ‘ don’t inspect the containers and learn to move with the tide after studying the direction along which the country is moving’ in regard to the container loads of heroin and ethanol that were brought into the country by Namal Rajapakse via Kappam Champika.
Lanka e news earlier described Jagath Premalal Wijeweera as not a bad individual. The present government has appointed Wijeweera as secretary to the ministry of law and order . Wijeweera told Lanka e news that he does not know Kappam Champika .
The kappam from the dealers who got down the heroin and ethanol containers were collected on behalf of Namal by Champika , and his lover Bogallagama had assisted them.
Namal has also through his assistant Champika collected monies from government Institutions.On one occasion on a single day Rs. 4 million and Rs. 5 million were collected from Bank of Ceylon and Peoples bank respectively. These monies were collected as funds for the ‘Thaaurinyata heta’ organization activities , but these collections were continued later as kappam. (The way kappam collections from Bank of Ceylon and Peoples bank were made is depicted in the photographs herein).
Kappam Champika who had only Rs. 1500.00 cash in 2005 , (Lanka e news reported previously) , now lives in a house worth many millions at Boralesgamuwa.(vide photograph). In front of this house is a board that mentions ‘no parking of vehicles on the orders of the SSP ’ of that division. Lanka e news is now inquiring into who is the SSP who so brazenly gave support to the notorious Kappam Champika.
While this report was being prepared another piece of information was received by us . That is , prior to 8 th January 2015 , during the final days , Namal had dispatched 25 kilos of gold through Champika to Seychelles Island. Kappam Champika had threatened to shoot and kill a Customs officer in Seychelles when he tried to inspect the cargo.
The information gathered by Lanka e news following the request made by us to the people to provide us with all the information they have of Champika Karunaratne alias Kappam Champika , are being treated most confidentially , while also safeguarding those who provided the information. All the information had been given over to the relevant officers . In the event there is any more information pertaining to their extortion operations and activities , Lanka e news hereby most earnestly requests the informants to provide the details to the CID or the FCID .
-By a special reporter of Lanka e news inside information division-
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Is he the only one person that who had extotion.? no, he is not. You just think a little, if former president Mahinda Rajapakshe had been finding the extortioners of past goverments that acctualy every ministers of u.n.p would have arrested the personalities like Ravi Karunanayeka.Then i beg you sir, please arrest the extortioners of past goverments also otherwise leave Mr.Champika.
-- by Heshan Eranda on 2015-11-22
Good reporting LEN. Check this out: http://www.dailymirror.lk/114385/Court-orders-report-on-Sujani-Bogollagama-s-admission-to-paying-ward
-- by Rohantha on 2016-08-19
