According to the latest game planned by the Yahapalanaya government to plunder people’s money, is through the frauds that have taken place against rice. A fraud has begun where innocent farmers’ paddy or rice is bought by big businessmen at the lowest price possible, who sell them to the public at a much higher amount of money. These racketeers were led by P. Harisson, Ravi Karunanayake, and the Lanka Sathosa Consumer Authority.
The main reason for this scam to take place is because stockpiles of rice is being stored in government owned warehouses and later on sold to close friends at a very low price. Because of this the government has incurred a huge loss and innocent people’s money is being plundered.
Throughout this whole scam, the government had stored 234800 metric tonnes of Nadu wheat and 29000 metric tonnes of samba wheat which was bought at a price of Rs. 45 to 50 from the framers. Although the small and medium scale rice traders had demanded the rice at a price of Rs. 39, MP P. Harisson did not provided the rice at that price because it will not fill his pocket in anyway.
Speaking at a media briefing, MP P. Harrison stated that the sale of paddy has been completed and that there is 200000 metric tonnes in the stores that are in the process of being turned into rice, but the government has incurred no loss throughout this process. But they knew that the discussion was just to deceive all small and medium scale rice traders. MP P. Harisson also stated that 38117 metric tonnes of wheat is sold at a price of Rs. 32.50, which literally confirms the statement “The Cat has jumped out of the bag.” This alone has caused a loss of Rs. 566 million to the government.
P. Harisson had committed these frauds with close friends that are large-scale rice dealers like Nipuna Rice, Araliya Rice and Rathna Rice. They obtain paddy at such a low price from the farmers which is a profit for MPs and Ministers who obtain it but later on sell it at a higher price and plunder innocent people’s money. Their main purpose is to fill their pockets enormously.
Do we need a corrupt regime like this that cheats people with our own country’s resources?
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