Organisation affiliated to JVP raises voice against State corruption

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The Voice against Corruption, an organisation affiliated to the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), is to raise a voice against state sector corruption.

The organisation charges that state sector institutions and projects have become means for Government politicians to extract monies through corrupt deals.

Voice against Corruption member Wasantha Samarasinghe said the people are being burdened due to the frauds and corruption of these politicians. He explained that the Government continuously increased taxes on essential items and services such as milk powder, wheat flour, gas and electricity and the monies collected as taxes are in turn stolen through corrupt means.

The rupee has depreciated by about 25 per cent due to the wasteful spending and corruption of the Government, Samarasinghe charged.

Referring to a few allegedly corrupt deals that have come to the limelight recently like the purchase of shares of The Finance Company by National Savings Bank, the acquisition of Pelawatte and Sevenagala sugar companies, large scale frauds in the Department of Public Trustee, Mihin Lanka, SriLankan Airlines, Central Bank, Lanka Mineral Sands Corporation and in projects such as IIFA cinema festival, the organisation said action needed to be taken against such issues.

Samarasinghe said the Voice against Corruption would reveal information about frauds and corruption in the country and rally with the people to fight against it.

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