
The thinking of those individuals who committed frauds and engaged in corruption and waste of public funds during the previous regime and of those who are engaged in destroying people’s assets and rob public money with the support of the present government that Voice Against Corruption (VAC) has been terminated just because the Anti-Corruption Committee Secretariat has been closed down is only a myth says the convener of VAC Wasantha Samarasinghe pointing out that the Anti-Corruption Committee Secretariat was founded in 2015 but VAC existed since 2011.
He said this participating in a media meeting of the series of media meetings held under the theme ‘Helidarauwa’ (Exposure).
Mr. Samarasinghe pointed out frauds and corruption committed in several instances including frauds at Lanka Transformers group of companies, the fraud committed by producing a bill for meals at a ceremony in the Ministry of Agriculture and the instance of evading paying tax by 23 individuals involved in iron related industries.
Mr. Samarasinghe also talked about slanders spread to disrepute him personally, VAC and the JVP by certain parties using the internet on YouTube, Face Book and by certain blogs.
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