4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (338+ words) Wimal Weerawansa and Udaya Gammanpila are named as the two key figures in this political wing. Both are alleged to have benefited financially from these diverted state funds, receiving substantial payments in exchange for publicly defending Gotabaya Rajapaksa. When Suresh…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (85+ words) (Lanka-e-News -09.Sep.2026,11.30 AM) The Sri Lanka Police reportedly arrested lawyer Achala Seneviratne unlawfully in Trincomalee on September 4. According to reports, the arrest was the culmination of a prolonged conspiracy allegedly involving the Attorney General’s Department and the police. The alleged…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (419+ words) (Lanka-e-News -05.Sep.2026,10.30 PM) A former close associate of Namal Rajapaksa, well-known businessman Nimal Perera, is reportedly set to give evidence against him in two separate cases, according to sources close to the investigation. The Attempt to Reach Nimal Perera Namal…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (434+ words) Investigation within a drug cartel By Ruwan Weerakoon Sources describe a woman known so far only by the name or code-name "Sandra," said to be a long-standing associate of Basik's and a frequent traveller to Sri Lanka. Preliminary source information…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (234+ words) (Lanka-e-News -18.Aug.2026, 11.50 PM) There is a moment in the President's meeting with the Bar Association of Sri Lanka that should be read slowly, because it is doing more philosophical work than the room may have realized. Asked, in effect, to…...

4+ week, 20+ hour ago   (825+ words) -An Investigation by Ruwan Weerakoon In the early 1990s, a short, thin young man wearing torn T-shirts and slippers picked up garbage for the Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia Municipal Council. Today, that former labourer, born on October 24, 1978, in Dehiwala, is known as Shiran…...