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However, Hulugalle had been convicted in by the Colombo High Court for his role in a timber scam. He was sentenced to two years in prison, a term which was suspended for 10 years. Although it was widely known that Hulugalle had a conviction against him, he was entrenched in government and appointed to the ComBank board before it was raised. Earlier this year Hulugalle tried to quash the issue by claiming — in a soft-focus interview in a government-friendly magazine — that his conviction had been due to a power struggle between party factions, and that it had later been annulled.

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Take Dhammika Perera, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Transport. The self-made Perera based his fortune on slot machines, then parlayed his prowess at gambling into casinos and banking. Sri Lanka rugby captain Yoshitha Rajapaksa practicing in Colombo. Last year Sri Lankan cricket authorities confirmed what many in Sri Lankan media had suspected, that a come-from-nowhere TV sports channel, Carlton Sports Network, is owned by the two Rajapaksa lads. Its chief executive is Nishanta Ranatunga, brother of Arjuna, who led Sri Lanka to its greatest ever sports triumph — the World Cup cricket win over Australia.

Cricket in Sri Lanka has long been broadcast by the multi-lingual state broadcaster Rupavahini, to be viewed by as many Sri Lankans as possible. So the lucrative rights were won by the politically connected Carlton, which has since expanded into rugby, another very popular sport on the island. Paula Bronstein for The Global Mail. Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport in Hambantota has a brand-new main terminal and big ambitions, if not yet big traffic.

Named after the president, Rajapaksa International Airport at Mattala, outside Hambantota, is a facility that redefines the word ambitious. Designed to handle six million passengers annually, on some 75, flights, it has some way to go before it meets such projections.

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The day The Global Mail stopped by, official schedules showed 16 departures for the entire week and just three on that particular day — to Colombo, Shanghai and Dubai — and another flight the next day, ferrying Sri Lankan labourers to Dubai. All of which might explain why the occasional bustle around the airport is not created by passengers busying through customs and immigration, but by excursion groups of local schoolchildren, marveling at the modernity.

The Gulf-based budget carrier Air Arabia was lured into flying here, only to shut down its service to Sharjah after a few weeks due to a lack of passengers. This browser settings will not support to add bookmarks programmatically. Please select subscription.

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