Asian Tribune has found that Hicorp/British Bourne - Companies registered by Danuna Tilakaratne (son-in-law of General Sarath Fonseka and son of retired Brigadier Tilakaratne) in Oklahoma, USA, had submitted false evidence to win tenders they had submitted in Sri Lanka to the Army, Navy, Air force and the police
Danuna registered the business in Oklahoma, as well as in Texas. Also he registered his business in Colombo too.
He registered Hicorp Company in Oklahoma in his name, but suddenly on Nov 16, 2009, he changed the registration in favor of some other person apparently after he got the wind of Asian Tribune’s investigations into his dealings.
In Colombo Danuna registered his business under the name of Lakshman Abeysekara.
Lakshman Abeysekara is just a name. The actual registration was done through a lawyer Mr. A.S.H.A Hanan. This lawyer made some kind of deal with Danuna Thilakaratne as a silent partner of the company in Sri Lanka. Detail of this registration is given in this column.
Danuna’s company in Oklahoma shows Ruwinda Gunaratne is a director with effect from Nov 16.
Ruwinda is the son of Vice Air Marshal Channa Gunaratne, Director Planning in the Sri Lankan Air Force.
Ruwinda used to live with Danuna. That was long time back. On Nov 16, he was not in the US as he had returned home by then, according to Asian Tribune’s investigation.
Yet, Danuna, on 16th November went to the State Secretary’s Office and changed the name of the company to Ruwinda Gunaratne’s name.
How could he do this? By simply forging the documents! Danuna forged the signatures of Ruwinda and got the company changed to his name. But Ruwinda was not aware of these changes. Danuna also put some other Sri Lankans’ addresses without the knowledge of those Sri Lankans.
Danuna Thilakaratne does not have an Alien Residency in US (Green Card), but he does have a H1B visa. (If you are a Foreign national who wants to live and Work in the USA, you need to get HIB Visa)
He had filed that H1B visa through a company which does not even exist in the US.
What Danuna did for the tax? It is suspected that he forged documents and on that basis submitted his tax returns.
Danuna stayed in his home in Oklahoma (his wife stays there) and made phone calls to all the generals. There is a gang in this field – a brigadier identified as Fydel Meedin, Colonel Col Rohan Wijesundara and many others.
Danuna Thilakaratne minted millions of US dollars from contracts secured from the security forces of Sri Lanka. He supplied a wide variety of items and munitions starting with the security systems for army headquarters, surveillance cameras and related ancillaries, and gas masks to binoculars.
For the past 3-4 years, he was the fountain head of all military supplies. And he minted millions of dollars. All because his father-in-law was the Army Commander!
Company Registered in Oklahoma USA (Document Hicorp 1 and H2 attached)
Hicorp International Inc.,
Danuna Thillakeratne
17545 Gold Drive,
Edmond, Oklahoma 73003.
Particulars about the company –its paid up capital, nature of business etc are available on the internet at www.sooneraccess.state.ok.us/corp_inquiry/corp_inquiry-find.asp
After this company information surfaced on the internet, Danuna Thillakeratne went to the State Secretary Office in Oklahoma at 4.59PM November 16th/ (or through one his agents, it is unclear he managed it) and forged the signature of Ruwinda Gunaratne and changed the name of registered agent by signing as a president for the company and forging Ruwinda Gunaratne’s signature and address as (Ruwinda was in Sri Lanka when he changed the agents name and address) –
If you look at H2 and H4 documents you will see 2 different signatures for Ruwinda Gunaratne. Danuna forged the signature. He should go to jail for this. He also changed the address to 1925 Bradford Way.
Company In Texas
Danuna Thilakaratne registered another company in Texas as British Borneo Defence.
Its address is shown as -
British Borneo Defence
L/A : M/S Hicorp (Pvt) Ltd
3215 Mission Ridge Drive
Flower Mound
TX 75022
Particulars about the company can be found at www.sooneraccess.state.ok.us/corp_inquiry/corp_inquiry-find.asp
Does this Company exist at all?
Asian Tribune doesn’t think so? It appears to be a fictitious company created with forged document. The company appears to have been floated for the exclusive purpose of cornering orders/tenders from army, navy, air force, and the police
(See attached BB1 and BB2)
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Kickbacks from Every Bullet Fired
Danuna Thilakaratne, who married Apsara, eldest daughter of Gen Sarath Fonseka, (she lives in Oklahoma) profited from every bullet fired in the war as the exclusive agent of the Pakistani arms dealer and ISI agent Ahmed Nissar.
The ISI agent stays rent free in Danuna Thilakeratne’s flat in Central Colombo. Danuna purchased the flat for 1.5 million US dollars.
As agent of Pak arms dealer, Danuna received 2 cents for every bullet procured and $ 20 for every shell.
How much could be the kickback?
Must be in millions as the Wanni War was a very major military campaign that lasted for more than three years, when President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared a fight to finish humanitariagn Campaign against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) .
The Wanni confrontation created him a multi millionaire overnight. The bullets fired by our soldiers in the defence of the country and to remove terrorism scourge enriched the pockets of the family of the very General, who was leading the campaign of the Sri Lankan forces.
Is this what our valiant soldiers shed their blood for?
Danuna Thilakeratne’s company Hicorp is made up of relatives of former army Commander. It was involved in the purchase of MIGs from Ukraine, uniform and telecommunication equipment from China, food rations from Malaysia and tank transporters from Russia.
Hicorp also supplied ration packs, which were past their shelf life and bought cheaply from a Malaysian Tamil who had imported them from China. That put the Sri Lankan soldiers in the front line at risk while from the profits and kickbacks from the sale enabled Danuna Thilakaratne and his friends feast on Caviar and champagne at the best restaurants in Europe and USA.
Forged Bank Guarantee documents
Even the bank guarantee forms Danuna Thilakeratne’s company submitted were fudged. Hicorp altered and printed fudged bank guarantee forms, it appears, without the knowledge of the bank.
In the Army HQ offices, we learn, a few Generals and others got involved in the Hicorp deals under the instruction of Gen Fonseka and covered up the issue. Gen Thoradeniya and Gen Mahesh Senanayake , Gen Jayanath Perera, Brig Fydel Meedin and Col Rohan Wijesundara are the names mentioned in this connection.
Army Hq Security System
Contract for Army Hq security camera system was awarded to Hicorp (Nexsel – British Borneo Defence) under the influence of Gen Fonseka. The company failed to implement the system as specified in the agreement but Gen Fonseka ordered the Army to allow them to finish the work at extra cost which helped Hicorp and some Brigadiers make millions.
Gen Fonseka ignored the fact that Hicorp never had any experience in installing a security camera system. In fact, it has no office space in Colombo!
The system started to fall apart even before the Army made the payment to Hicorp. But nobody questioned fearing the ire of the General.
Col Rohan Wijesundara influenced the decisions of the tender boards; he also issued a special pass to Randy DeHoedt, (Danuna Tilakeratne’s manager) to come and go as he wished to the Army Hq.
Gas Mask Deal too
The Gas mask deal was also given to Danuna Thilakeratne’s company.
The tender board was pressurized by General Sarath Fonseka to favor his son-in-law’s company; he threatened to charge officers if they did not cooperate with his son-in-law and his manager Randy DeHoedt.
Now a few questions arise and only General Sarath Fonseka can answer them
Questions to Gen Fonseka
How about millions of dollars in commission from Tanks deal?
-You asked your Director Plans to work directly with your son-in-law and not with any other party.
How about the commission from satellite deal?
-Your son - in -laws’s Company still supplies satellite images to Sri Lanka army and made millions of dollars in commission
How about the commission from uniforms and boots?
-You awarded the boots and uniform tender to your son- in- law’s company who represented as an agent for Brig Thilakeratne’s company (your son-in-law’s father’s company)
How about the commission from MBR?
How about the commission from your own Mercedes Benz?
How about commissions from MIG deal?
How about communication equipments deals from Brig Bashir and NRTS?
How about the commissions from the compasses your son-in-law supplied to army?
Hicorp provided false bank guarantee certificates and other affiliation documents with most of the tenders they submitted; when army HQ offices discovered it, Gen Fonseka intervened, hushed it up and even transferred some officers to isolated places.
Even today those documents are available at army HQ. Most of these documents clearly show that Hicorp – British Bourne and Nexsel submitted documents for tenders are altered and false.
For submitting false documentation Army can arrest Lakshman Wijesekara and Randy Dehoedt. Their interrogation will help to find out who gave those instructions and all the details of Gen Fonseka’s Wrong doings.
Danuna’s Dubious Investments
Danuna Thilakaratne started a new Salon in Kirulapana, Sri Lanka besides a Salon at Las Vegas, USA, Night Club at Holiday Inn, Sri Lanka, Beach Hotel in Negambo Sri Lanka, Communication Company in London, and Salon in Galle Face Hotel. He invested millions of dollars in the American and Sri Lankan stock markets. Where did he get this money? Gen Fonseka should be asked for a reply.
The Former Army Commander got President Fund scholarship for his daughter to study in the USA though the scholarship is meant for poor students. He used to get his son-in-law’s economy class air ticket upgraded to the first class on the National Carrier Sri Lankan Airlines. This upgrading was not limited to his son-in-law alone. The General’s entire family and their friends got upgrades for more than 50 times when Sarath Fonseka was the Army Commander.
The General’s official vehicle with commando guards in tow was used by the son-in-law for his personal purpose and for his business visits.
The General granted SL Army intelligence money to political campaigns.
(More will follow soon – Editor)
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Comments
General to contest Presidential fight !!!
Re Emergence of ZIA UL HAQ ! this time not in Pakistan.
Should he be allowed to go further, it will be the Grave for very people who elect him.
Never ever trust the Military heads.
Let's have a sense of Balance
Let's have a sense of Balance in this report. All readers know that there were over 11,000 ltte cadre among KT's ' "innocent" Tamil civilians', plus yet unidentified thousands of Tamil Dalits (Untouchables) who have come across over the last few years as ILLEGAL MIGRANTS via the Mannar route mainly. We, the ordinary citizens of Lanka know that the "Human Shield" was Prabhakaran's army ! The GoSL has acted in the most honorable manner to end this most bitter war & Lanka's mostly Sinhala public has shown incredible understanding & restraint in the matter of rehabilitating the "Human Shield". We like to congratulate the GoSL, the armed forces, & the public of Lanka on this great achievement.
This whole war in Lanka is really an off shoot of Tamil Nadu's CASTE WAR, and not Sri Lanka's war ! May all Lankans not lose sight of this, and act against ILLEGAL MIGRATION, forever. Tamil Nadu must learn how to handle its CASTE WARS there itself, and not use Lanka as a place to off load its angry dissidents. We can have a lasting peace in Lanka & Tamil Nadu only if the issues are faced truthfully, not otherwise.
General (rtd) Fonseka is a war hero as far as Lanka is concerned. Only he himself can keep himself on that pinnacle of achievement.
We respect only the TRUTH, in everything !
Why majority srilankan
Why majority srilankan respect Gen Kobbekadiwa? Was it becuase he won the war against LTTE?
It was simply due to his love for country and patriotism until his untimely death...
Why we considered Gen Fonseka as war hero? it is because of his patriotism to country with determination to defeat LTTE. The day that we feel that such patriotism is no more, what feeling that he expect us to have?
Gen Fonseka was not a perfectionist, in fact none of us. Most of the people I believe knew about above commission dealings of his son in law. In fact Gotabaya would have known this. But many people opted to slip such things from their mind since Gen Fonseka behaved as patriotic soul. There is nothing unusual about this behaviour. We did that despite that fact Gen Fonseka was publicly running down Karannagoda and Navy. But we pretend that we did not hear that.
If (if at all) Gen Fonseka contest presidential election with the support of Ranil, Mangala, Mano and Hakeem we will not anymore consider him as a patriot. He will become one of them.
Unfortunately, Gen Fonseka is responsible for getting himself bogged in this mud pit. It was he who made a pardim shift for personal reasons. In fact We were shocked to read resignation letter which indicatged very personal reasons rather than compelling strategic reason.
Majority public will unleash same rage that they directed towards unholly alliance, towards Gen Fonseka as well the moment he join hand with them. Nothing unusual about this.
Gen Fonseka would have had personal differences with Gotabaya and Mahinda. But for him to prove a personal point, we can not let this country to be handed over to west licking bunch. We shall decide soon...
Well said Mr.Tissa Jayanath
Well said Mr.Tissa Jayanath .That is the truth these bunch of traitors trying to conceel...
Prostituting Journalism at its best
I was amazed to see this sort of an article on AT. I was even amazed by seeing many people who are decent regular readers of AT call this as "Investigative journalism at its best".
No doubt that if the things published here regarding arms deals and all that are true, they has to be readily investigated and relevant parties should be punished. Further, the effort that has been taken to investigate these has to be appreciated.
The topic "Every bullet fired at innocent Tamil civilians fetched kickbacks to Gen Fonseka family" definitely carry some other meaning. Why "Tamil Civillians"?
Was the recently ended war against innocent tamil civilians??????
Most of the Sri Lankans would love to hear gossips, and when they are thrilled by gossips they cant even understand what is behind the stories. It is clear that this writer is a thrilled LTTE supporter or a spokesman of Tamil diaspora.
This is nothing but venom on Sri Lankan military operations lead to the defeat of LTTE.
Publishing personal photographs and personal things that is not relevant to the theme "Investigative journalism at its best" but it is "Prostituting Journalism at its best"
If this is the way AT try to do their media work, no doubt that tomorrow they will publish porn photos to attract readers......
It is so sad that Ranarala's
It is so sad that Ranarala's inability to understand who were with LTTE side during the war...it was Ranil and the clan!! who were doing everything to save Praba and the clan !! Everyone including Ranarala know that AT is always agaist LTTE but Ranarala speaks against his self conscience that is overun by his loyalty to these bunch of traitors ( may be a kind of " kapuwath kolapata le" guy).If you want to see " prostituting journalism at its best " just see Lanka eNews...
Bogus General
Why ranarala is getting so agitated about a bogus general?? Publishing his photos will enable us to identify the other rogues too. Some of these people around SF are the ones pumped him up to give the illusion of a brave General. He had no bravery as most of the war planning and execution was done in his abscence. The suicide attack on him is orchastrated by the cook he personally picked up, and he has to share some responsibility. Also it happened at the entrance to Army HQ which was under his direct control. He could not assure the safety of his chief of staff Parami Kulathunge. The senior officers on ground has to be commended for their ferocious effort not SF. Any fool could have won the war if he has good political leadership. The venom is on you sir, talking about hero who has become zero. SF is not a Kobbekaduewa or a Wimalaweera. He is a waste of an Officer by entering poltics which he maintained that he will never do.
Raju, please do not hold the
Raju, please do not hold the problem from wrong end!
Yes, this aricle has been written based on good researching which has to be appreciated.
All what you have said regarding SF MAY be true.
First, what the writer has tried to do is to give an impression that the forces won the war by killing innocent Tamil civilians, which is the very same song that the Tamil diaspora, Ranil, Mangala, Mano and Hakeem sing.
Secondly, The writer has tried to brief the war as a personal goal of the SF. Writer wants to discredit the whole military effort against the LTTE which is nothing to do with SF's personal goals and his alleged involvements in deals.
You (I don't know whether you are an LTTE supporter or not) and most of the other readers forget the topic and thrilled by the content.
If SF and his son-in-law involved in alleged deal, no doubt that they should be punished and those should be exposed to the public. But publishing on those too, should not encourage Eelamists which is the exact opposite this writer has done!
Those who have praised this article have not mentioned anything on the bloody topic it contains....So they have simply accepted that the Innocent Tamil civilians were killed during the war and the war was a personal goal of SF!!!!!
What is important is to secure the defeat of Eelam in long term, and not allowing Eelamists to take these opportunities to re-destroy this country!
Bullets fired at innocent Tamil civilians??
No doubt it was enlightening to know what was happenning behind the scene.
Why does the headline of this article read "bullets fired at innocent Tamil civilians" when the content does not have anything related to war crimes.
Why are these personal photographs of SF's family relevant to the point at discussion?
AT are you really on the right track? Hope you would keep up to the mark we readers of AT are expecting.
General's son in law invests 1.5 million dollars in Colombo Hous
I have been watching in dismay from the sidelines, how this news item did not hit the headlines in the media. Mr. Rajasingham has done a wonderful research on to nefarious dealings of the former commander in a very credible manner. None of the news feeds had entertained anything, and have been glorifying this corrupt commander and many associates of him. The very media that bring all sorts of unsubstantiated allegations against the President and Gotabaya seem to be orchestrated by out side influence to behave this way. People who are reading these columns should copy the contents of this article to everybody they know to give the true face of the man who wants to become the President.
General Scandal ! SF makes millions US$ from Blood
Impending danger from Democracy to Military dictatorship!!!
General SF makes millions of US Dollars from the Soldiers Blood
Thanks a lot to AT for disclosing the details the ordinary people were never thought of or would believe, if there was no evidence.
All these time most ordinary people were in a dream that SF was a clean patriot. Now that illusion is cracked for ever and any intention to betray the nation at this juncture would be dealt with by public at the next pres. election. We will all go to the field to support MR and tell the people not to be duped by SF and is duped patriotism.
The money SF and his family gathered will be sprayed against the MR at the election, from whichever party he contest from, but we do not care. We need no military dictator in this country. If Ranil gives him the ticket, that will be the Ranil's ticket to hell or if JVP gives the same for JVP.
What is unfolding, resembles the 1971 coup in Chile where president Allende was overthrown and assassinated by CIA lead Chilean military coup.
All reactionary forces in the internationally and locally, are looking at every possibility of defeating or assassinating MR, to make this their playground and backyard.
We intelligent people of Sri Lanka are aware what is being done in the background and underground. SF must be dreaming the throne to achieve the power now, after having gathered that massive and dirty money, by hood while hood winking the mass of this country portraying as the patriot who saved the motherland from LTTE blood devils, but we are aware that when the war started he was in a Hospital and when the war was at last phase, he was touring overseas depositing, examining and collecting his bank accounts and commissions, while poor soldiers were giving their lives to save the motherland.
It was none other than MR and GOTA who played the pivotal role of eliminating the LTTE menace from this land for ever. War was the best money making mine for a many in the past and its no more now, so we must be great full to MR who had the guts to take that decision which no other leader took so far, and the GOTA who well planned and conducted, and then the poor soldiers who gave their lives to end the LTTE menace from this land for ever.
The very dupes patriot SF is now shouting like a angered dog, but not as a hero, who is trying to claim the entire credit for the winning of war.
After having tasted the money, what SF needs now is the power to be enthroned for ever and establish his military regime.
We in Sri Lanka never needs a Military rule, nor we are ready to heed to any orders of SF. He may be thinking of US supported, CIA lead 1971 Chilean type plan here. Because his dream is to be the military dictator until his death and have one foot in Sri Lanka and other foot in Yankee land.
SF better go to Yankee land now or he needs to be sent to Un-derland if he is too much to this land.
SF, keep one thing in mind, you may be having so much money pocketed from shady, illegal deals and have support from US and CIA, but if you touch MR, be assure that Lasantha’s Ghost is still behind you.
The crime comes behind you like your own shadow.
We will do our best to protect MR, regardless of any shortcomings in his conduct which can be corrected democratically, but we do not want Military rule at all.
You better go to Yankee land, then live with that money and Sun-In-Law, extend your business to Iraq and Afghan war and make more money with Hillary-Obama-CIA company.
Patriotic people of Sri Lanka, rally around MR and protect him and motherland, if not the next era of nation betrayal will begin soon with SF-Ranil-Mano-Hakeem-JVP. North and East Sri Lanka will be EELAM and south will be the backyard of America.
The known Devil is always better than Unknown Angel!
The tip of a mud-berg
This is just the tip of an iceberg of things yet to come - from the feud between the administration and the ex-Commander. By the end of it all, lot of skeletons will walk out of closets to the detriment of all parties, including the nation. At huge risk to those high-ups involved with decision making during the war, the rivalry could escalate spilling information to those entities keen on bringing war crimes charges. Organizations such as Tamils for Obama are perhaps jubulent about the emergig rivalry as it will nicely play into their hands. Once again the lions are demonstaring to the entire world, how they can roar and claw one another to bits and in the process also take the entire nation down. My respect and vote will go to the side that embarks least in trashing the other with negative propaganda - but emphasizes his own accomplishments. Sri Lankan voters are not fools and thus, attempts at negative depictions may well backfire.
An ugly Mudberg in the offing...
In agreeing fully with Dias's comments on the looming political battle...it will only bring shame on the image of Sri Lanka and on its people, with utter jubilation to LTTE International, at this point in time it is the full responsibility of General Fonseka to save the situation, as he and he alone is now the man who will make the call to either go into battle and bring disaster to the nation he fought for brilliantly and valiantly, or decide with WISDOM to do the right thing at this time and NOT throw in his hat for this Presidential election.
Most certainly, the opportunity will come in the future, if he plays this right, and he should await it. He can remain the military hero and emerge a "POLITICAL HERO" as well if he makes the right decision now and opts out.
Sons of a Gun
You two may be the sons of a gun to behave this way. Most of you have no hesitation when it comes to attack the president, may be the delay in settling the IDP or any other local or international issue. Why don’t you have that tolerance to a president who has done such a lot for the country? Why SF. When you analyze the issues you will understand any fool can be the Army Commander if he has adequate political leadership and backing. What happened at Vadamarachchi under General Kobbekaduwe illustrate this. Kobbekaduw did not have 200,000 men at his command. If JRJ did not buckle, SF would not have had a war to fight. It is the President and the government who won the war for all of us.
The hidden faces of war
Thanks AT for for a good piece of investigative journalism. However this is always one side of the whole story. A war cannot be possible without two parties and both parties collect weopons and ammunitition or manufacture them. If one party is a terror group then the government side is always legitimate and what they buy is always supportred with an end user certificate. What the terror group buys is always illegal and they do the purchasing secretly. Whatever it may be there have been reported cases of both sides buying from the same source and through the same agent. So the equation for calculating the agent's profits from deaths is always produce the same result for both sides. It is always a win win situation for the agent.
However, the difference here is the apparent manipulation of the procedure to get the profits for one agent. There is a saying that it is no crime to take a handful of water from a flowing river without attempting to divert the river towards another direction. Wars are always flowing rivers of money and taking handfuls is never taken seriously.
Yet What has been reported by AT indicates an attempt to divert the river and that is very serious when the Commander of the legitimate Army is involved in diversion.
AT. You should also investigate the agents through whom the GOSL owned Arms Purchasing Company procured the Weapons and ammunition. It will be balanced reporting and also will clear the picture for people in Sri Lanka.
Un General
If the facts are true, this may be the real Fonseka I was trying to talk about for many months. An obscure officer who ascended to the role of Army Commander due to good nature of the president to uplift the under privileged, has become a nightmare. If this is the General opposition was supporting, that is the end of the opposition and its theory of common candidate. Perhaps those millions of ill gotten money may be war chest SF was counting to challenge he president. There will be more to come about the Un-General in the next few weeks.
Alleged financial deals linked to Gen Fonseka
The material produced by AT appears well researched, and therefore it has credibility. AT is not an irresponsible publication that wishes to throw mud at people. These findings therefore must be investigated officially by the govenments of Sri Lanka and the USA, and if there is a prima facie case to charge those responsible for any offences they may have committed, such action must be taken without fear or favour. The last thing Sri Lanka needs is a Presidential candidate or eventually even a President tainted by corruption and malpractices. General Fonseka must encourage and in fact ask for an inverstigation if he feels he has been wrongly linked to any possible corrupt practices. It is in his interest, and that of the country for him to do so. If he doesnt, he, the country and the Opposition might be carrying a stench that will get worse as time goes by. Gen Fonseka and the Opposition should not throw stones if they are in a glass house
Investigative journalism at its best!
Congrats to the Asian Tribune on the Expose! This is the BOFORS of Sri Lanka. The expose will open a can a worms for the General. I wonder how the General will respond to the charges against his son's alleged involvement. Who knows he might point a finger at the political establishment. This is the danger of being a 'son of a gun'!