ATTEMPTS TO BRING MADUSH

THWARTED BY UNNECESSARY MEDIA BLITZ: KIRIELLA

Leader of the House Lakshman Kiriella charged that the attempts to bring underworld character Makandure Madush and his fellow criminals was thwarted by the unnecessary publicity given by the media to his arrest on January 04 by Dubai Police.

He told Daily Mirror that stings like this has to be carried out under extreme secrecy until its successful conclusion. If the secret operation becomes a public domain it will be subject to failure. Therefore, Sri Lanka intelligence services will have to work in extreme secrecy and care to deal with Dubai Police to bring this man back to Sri Lanka and try before our courts.

Minister Kiriella said the best example was the rounding up of ‘KP’ aka Kumaran Pathmanathan, the LTTE fund raiser in Kuala Lumpur in August 2009 in a sting operation carried out by the Sri

If the secret operation becomes a public domain it will be subject to failure. Therefore, Sri Lanka intelligence services will have to work in extreme secrecy and care to deal with Dubai Police to bring this man back to Sri Lanka

Lanka Police with the assistance of Police in Malaysia.

“No one knew about KP’S arrest until he was brought to Sri Lanka. If there was not this media blitz, we could have brought Madush and his gang to Sri Lanka easily,” Minister Kiriella lamented.

Commenting on the media reports that there was a VIP passport holder among the 25 suspects arrested with Madush, Minister Kiriella said as far as he knew, it was a false information and added that Dubai Police had not arrested a Sri Lankan with a VIP passport.