{"id":43960,"date":"2015-11-12T01:32:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T05:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=43960"},"modified":"2015-11-12T01:32:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T05:32:20","slug":"president-sirisena-revokes-all-agreements-and-orders-avant-garde-to-hand-over-3400-weapons-to-navyigp-instructed-to-prosecute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=43960","title":{"rendered":"President Sirisena Revokes all Agreements and Orders  Avant Garde to Hand Over 3400 Weapons to Navy;IGP Instructed to Prosecute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Zacki Jabbar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Maithripala Sirisena has directed that all agreements between Rakna Araksha Lanka Limited and Avant Garde Maritime Services be revoked and the offenders be prosecuted based on the original report of the Attorney General\u2019s investigation into the company\u2019s dealings.<\/p>\n<p>The order had been made at a special meeting the President chaired on the Avant Garde controversy at the Presidential Secretariat yesterday, Cabinet Spokesman and Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne said last night.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed that as as a first step, Avant Garde had been ordered to hand over all its weapons said to number around 3,400 to the Sri Lanka Navy. &#8220;The Inspector General of Police has been instructed to pursue legal action based on the Attorney General\u2019s original findings on Avant Garde\u2019s operations, which were first presented to the National Executive Council earlier this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Some illegal weapons were recovered from Avant Garde\u2019s possession recently, Senaratne, noted, adding that more evidence was bound to surface in the coming days and weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The AG\u2019s original Investigation Report had recommended that criminal action be instituted against top officials of Avant Garde and former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, but those recommendations had not been implemented due instructions given by a &#8221; Minister&#8221;, he alleged.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa was not available for comment at the time this edition went to press.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton43960\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D43960&amp;text=President%20Sirisena%20Revokes%20all%20Agreements%20and%20Orders%20%20Avant%20Garde%20to%20Hand%20Over%203400%20Weapons%20to%20Navy%3BIGP...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Zacki Jabbar President Maithripala Sirisena has directed that all agreements between Rakna Araksha Lanka Limited and Avant Garde Maritime Services be revoked and the offenders be prosecuted based on the original report of the Attorney General\u2019s investigation into the company\u2019s dealings. 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