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The Rajapaksa family
Family ties, offices held, court rulings and police inquiries involving Mahinda, Basil, Shiranthi, Namal, Yoshitha, Rohitha and Shasheendra Rajapaksa, as reported between 2017 and 2026. Dashed links are arrests, charges or inquiries that no court has upheld.
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PeopleIn custodyOn bailConvictedOrganisationsCases and eventsEaster attacksThe Rajapaksa familyPresidents since 2019Politicians and investigatorsGalagoda Aththe GnanasaraThe LTTE war, 1983 to 2009The Treasury bond casesThe 2022 economic crisisDisappearances and wartime killingsWar accountability at the UNCommunal violence and state force, 2013 to 2019Attacks on journalists and media, 2009 to 2026Disasters, 2004 to 2025Colombo Metro bus service, 2025 to 2026
People (20)
Organisations (8)
Cases and events (14)
- Gowers Corporate Services money laundering case
- Laundering of Rs. 30 million through the company in 2013 and 2014
- Krrish deal case
- Misappropriation of Rs. 70 million received from an Indian company for rugby development
- Malwana property case
- Misappropriating government funds to buy land in Malwana
- MiG aircraft procurement inquiry
- Embezzlement of public funds, put at US$7.833 million, and money laundering over the 2006 purchase of four MiG-27 aircraft for the Air Force
- N.R. Consultancy money laundering case
- Alleged investment of Rs. 15 million, said to have come from unlawful means, in N.R. Consultancy Company, an offence under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act if proved
- Navy recruitment corruption case
- That Yoshitha Rajapaksa was recruited to the Navy in 2006 without the required qualifications and trained in Britain at state expense
- Presidential election, 21 September 2024
- Presidents' Entitlements (Repeal) Act, September 2025
- Ratmalana land money laundering case
- Money laundering concerning a Rs. 34 million property in Ratmalana
- SriLankan Airlines Airbus purchase inquiry
- Alleged bribes linked to the airline’s 2013 purchase of Airbus aircraft
- Supreme Court ruling on the economic crisis, November 2023
- Tourism Promotion Bureau funds inquiry
- According to the CID, Rs. 7.8 million allocated to the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau in 2014 was not used for tourism promotion but to buy 12,000 T-shirts for the Uva Provincial Council election campaign, causing a loss to the government
- Yoshitha Rajapaksa and Daisy Forrest bank deposits case (Rs. 59 million)
- Yoshitha Rajapaksa money laundering trial, Colombo High Court
Documents and records (3)