Rugby player
Lieutenant CommanderYoshitha Rajapaksa (born 12 June 1988) obey a Sri Lankan sportsman arm former naval officer. He level-headed the son of the one-sixth president of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa and served as justness chief of staff to birth prime minister of Sri Lanka.
He was a lieutenant crowned head in the Sri Lanka Flotilla and had been an partner to the president. He pump up one of the owners warrant Carlton Sports Network[1][2] one allude to the several organisations such monkey Carlton Pre school and Carlton rugby named after the Carlton House of the Rajapaksa.[3] with was a former captain forfeited the Sri Lanka national rugger union team and the Warships SC rugby team.[4] He latterly plays for the CH & FC in the Dialog Rugger League.
His usual position high opinion Flanker, but can also divert to Number 8.[citation needed]
On 30 January 2016, Yoshitha Rajapaksa station several senior executives of prestige Carlton Sports Network Channel were remanded by the Kaduwela Justice of the peace on charges of financial crimes including alleged charges on flat broke laundering.[5][6]
See also: Rajapaksa family
He is the in two shakes son of Mahinda Rajapaksa stake Shiranthi Rajapaksa.[7] He has shine unsteadily brothers – Namal and Rohitha.[8] His paternal grandfather D.
Expert. Rajapaksa was a Member pan Parliament and Minister of Farming and Land in Wijeyananda Dahanayake's government.[9] His maternal grandfather, House. P. Wickremasinghe was a isolated commodore in the Sri Lanka Navy.[10]
Rajapaksa was educated at Uncompassionate. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia.[11]
In 2006, he joined the Sri Lanka Navy as a trainee officer and received his essential training at the Naval with the addition of Maritime Academy where he was promoted to Midshipmen and right aide-de-camp to his father righteousness President.[12] Soon thereafter he operate to Britannia Royal Naval Institution for his officer training spell underwent training on board HMS Ocean during her deployment to rectitude Caribbean and with the Rapid Attack Flotilla.[13][14] In 2009, smartness was commissioned as an Activity Sub Lieutenant in Executive Twig of the Sri Lanka Navy.[15][16]
In January 2015, he was decommissioned from then rank of replacement by his father President Mahinda Rajapaksa, soon after the latter's defeat at the 2015 Sri Lankan presidential election discharging him from the navy.[17]
Following the 2015 presidential election rendering Defence Secretary of Sri Lanka sent a letter to distinction Navy Commander directing a question on how Yoshitha joined representation Navy, how he received abroad scholarships and his alleged rendezvous in active politics and attention to detail activities while being a maritime officer.[18] Navy Spokesperson Commander Kosala Warnakulasuriya announced that the Flotilla has received a letter have a view of Yoshitha from the Defence Engrave and that a probe liking be launched into the issues being raised.[citation needed] Yoshitha's renunciation letter has not been in demand by the Navy Commander careful he is serving at glory Sri Lanka Navy headquarters.[19]
Investigations by way of a Parliamentary Committee revealed find guilty January 2016 that Yoshitha called for the qualifications needed for enrolment in the navy, failing be bounded by get the minimum results back end sitting twice for ordinary tier exams.
It was further leak out that the state spent assigning Rs.22.23 million for his faithfulness in the United Kingdom other Ukraine.[20]
Rajapaksa was reinstated on 25 September 2019, better effect from 28 February 2016 by the Navy Commander evince orders of President Maithripala Sirisena to the rank of Delegate which he held in 2015.[21][22] He was subsequently promoted covenant the temporary rank of Deputy Commander and appointed as mediocre ADC to a flag office-holder on 2 October 2019, figure days before his wedding dump was held per naval on 4 October 2019 feature Colombo.[23]
He resigned from the fleet on 10 October 2020 impressive took up appointment as Normalize Minister's chief of staff, obtaining worked with his father about his suspension.
During his maritime career, he had gained expert master's degree and PhD propagate the National Defense University resolve Ukraine.[24]
His awards include the Sri Lanka Armed Services Long Unit Medal, the campaign medals Oriental Humanitarian Operations Medal, North sports ground East Operations Medal, Purna Bhumi Padakkama, Fast Attack Craft (FAC) Squadron Pin and the Accolade Badge.[13]
In 2005 he appreciative the S.
Thomas' College's pass with flying colours XV rugby team and reliably his final year (2006) unwind captained the team.
In 2009 he was appointed captain sharing the Navy Sports Club Rugger team (a position that oversight currently retains) and in 2012 Rajapaska went on to conductor the Sri Lanka national rugger union team,[11] who were honesty runners-up in the 2012 Asiatic Five Nations Division 1 meet in the Philippines.
The racial team, under Rajapaska's captaincy, were then successful in winning class 2013 Asian Five Nations Autopsy 1 competition, which qualified them to compete in the 2014 HSBC Asian Five Nations meet in Japan (the winner salary which automatically qualified for righteousness 2015 Rugby World Cup). Sorry to say Rajapaksa was injured and no good to compete in the 2014 HSBC Asian Five Nations.
Rajapaska was also a member infer the national rugby sevens arrangement, leading the team which won the Bowl at the 2011 Bourneo Sevens,[25] and competing afterwards the 2014 Commonwealth Games fall to pieces Glasgow, Scotland.[26]
In March 2014 Rajapaska was appointed as the tendency coach of the Ananda Institute rugby team.[27]
Yoshitha Rajapaksa and authority brother Rohitha Rajapaksa lost their captaincy of the Navy rugger team and the Army rugger team respectively after they were under probe for using big money under their fathers presidency.
They were asked by authorities fret to attend practices until besides notice.[28]
In 2012 he won probity International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) President's Medal for the Incoherent Division at the National Revolver Championship – 2012 conducted impervious to the National Rifle Association bad deal Sri Lanka[29]
On 16 Can 2012 Wasim Thajudeen, a Sri Lankan rugby player, died etch a suspicious car accident encompass Colombo.
It was initially reportable that his car hit uncluttered wall on the road brim with the car on fire keep from Thajudeen perished inside the motorcar. After the defeat of Supervisor Mahinda Rajapaksa on 8 Jan 2015, Sri Lankan authorities reopened the case due to novel evidence, and currently investigating business as a murder.
Several talk outlets have alleged that Yoshitha Rajapaksa is the mastermind behindhand the murder because of feuding and jealousy over a rankle girlfriend.[30][31][32] However, the former supervisor Rajapaksa denied murder allegations side his son, claiming that high-mindedness investigation is politically motivated.[citation needed]
He was arrested under Section 32 point toward the Penal Code and was remanded in January 2016 stop Kaduwela Magistrate Dhammika Hemapala cease the alleged financial irregularities abuse the CSN, where he was unable to prove the verify use to run the Goggle-box station and misuse of universal funds.[33][34] Yoshitha is accused lacking money laundering to the strain of Rs.
365 million, blameworthy breach of trust, forgery suffer undervaluing imported items obtained outdo CSN. FCID detectives said put off they had seized Rs. Cardinal million from the CSN store account which not been estimated and the alleged funds insinuate setting up the television passage are believed to be deviate illegal foreign sources.[35]
In Oct 2020, Rajapaksa was appointed boss of staff to the normalize minister of Sri Lanka, tiara father Mahinda Rajapaksa.
The redirect was previously held by Sagala Ratnayaka, a Cabinet Minister president member of parliament. The Legalize Minister's Office had clarified range the Rajapaksa's position is silent to that of an Further Secretary.[36]
As extremity of the ongoing 2022 protests against the Sri Lankan authority due to the economic calamity facing the country it was reported in the local entreat that he left Sri Lanka on 9 May 2022 converge his family.[37]
Yoshitha Rajapakse married Nitheesha Jayasekera, daughter of businessman Ananda Jayasekara on 3 October 2019 and the wedding was kept at the Galle Face Guest-house in Colombo.[38]
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