Sri Lanka, March 12 -- Credible information as to how public funds have been misappropriated from the entire Mahinda Rajapaksa official residence renovation project has now reached this newspaper, following the Right to Information Commission's stern order to the contractor- Lanka Building Materials Corporation Limited- to release the requested details to the Daily Mirror newspaper. As per the documents this newspaper is in possession of, Rs. 421.93 million, out of tax payers' monies, have been spent on renovation activities of this house.

A copy of a document which shows that some of the purchases to facilitate the renovation of Mahinda Rajapaksa's residence was made through LBMCL Although the public authority -Lanka Building Materials ...