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This Tory Donor Was Secretly Filmed Dropping Cash-Stuffed Rucksacks At Post Offices

BuzzFeed News followed three bagmen from Lycamobile as they made “deeply suspicious” six-figure daily cash deposits at the Post Office.

posted on Oct. 5, 2015, at 6:57 p.m.
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One of the Conservative party’s biggest corporate donors, Lycamobile, is facing serious questions over its finances after three bagmen were secretly filmed dropping off rucksacks stuffed with hundreds of thousands of pounds twice a day at Post Offices across London.

A five-month investigation by BuzzFeed News has revealed that the Lyca telecoms group deploys three men to drive around in an unmarked people carrier depositing bags of money, which have totalled up to £1 million each week. Legal and financial experts said the “deeply suspicious” cash deposits should be urgently investigated.

Lycamobile has donated more than £1.3 million to the Conservative party since David Cameron came to power, including over £500,000 in this year alone, despite avoiding paying any corporation tax for years by moving revenue out of the UK through a complex offshore corporate network.

The evidence of Lyca’s unorthodox Post Office deposits comes in the wake of criticism from its new auditor, KPMG, which unearthed almost £46 million of previously undeclared revenue earlier this year and said the company had failed to properly explain the gap in its finances so it had been impossible to tell whether “adequate accounting records” had been kept.

Internal Tory emails show that the party accepted a large donation from the telecoms giant just days after the party’s compliance department raised concerns about its chaotic accounting in 2012. The gift bought the company’s Sri Lankan-born owner, Subaskaran Allirajah, a place in David Cameron’s private dining club for top donors, and the emails show he promised to advise the party on business and help deliver British Asian votes.

BuzzFeed News can also reveal that authorities in Sri Lanka are launching an investigation into a key offshore company in the Lyca empire as part of an international probe into allegations of corruption by the country’s despotic former president Mahinda Rajapaksa.

There is no evidence of any connection between the corruption allegations in Sri Lanka and the mysterious cash deposits in London. However, the Tories are now facing renewed pressure to sever their ties with the company, having previously brushed off warnings about its links to Rajapaksa, who is accused of presiding over a kleptocracy and multiple crimes against humanity during his decade in power.

Lyca declined to answer detailed questions from BuzzFeed News but said the police were aware of security processes in place at the east London depot where it stores its cash. It said the deposits were “day to day banking,” sanctioned by the Post Office. It has previously said that it is a cash-rich business because it collects money from shop owners selling its prepaid international calling cards and SIMs all over London.

However, experts said the company’s unorthodox method of depositing cash at scattered locations should raise a red flag with the anti-money-laundering and tax authorities. Lord MacDonald QC, the former director for public prosecutions, called for an urgent investigation into Lyca’s financial activities after seeing the evidence gathered by BuzzFeed News. “The use of unmarked vehicles, the lack of any security arrangements, the repeated deposits of huge sums of cash to multiple branches of the Post Office, is all conduct that cries out for explanation,” he said. “Frankly, this is not the way a normal … business deposits its cash. It is deeply suspicious and it demands serious investigation.”

Senior Labour MPs joined calls for an urgent investigation and demanded that the Tories freeze all further donations from Lyca and consider handing back the money they have already accepted. Meg Hillier, the chair of the powerful Commons public accounts committee, said HMRC should launch an inquiry into the company’s financial behaviour, and her predecessor, Margaret Hodge, said the revelations were “absolutely shocking”.

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The bagmen make their drops at Canning Town Post Office in July. BuzzFeed News

The twice-daily rucksack drops to multiple Post Offices are especially bizarre because the security firm G4S was filmed visiting the Lyca depot and collecting as many as 40 sacks of money at a time in an armoured van – the normal way for a cash-rich business to transport its takings. The company declined to explain why it is also sending staff to multiple Post Offices with bags of money every day when it has an armoured and properly audited cash-in-transit service at its disposal. Additionally, the Post Office has its own secure cash collection service, which charges just £220 to pick up £1 million a week and drive it directly to the bank.

The Post Office has not explained why Lyca’s unusual cash transactions have been allowed to continue, citing client confidentiality, but it said in a statement that it was fully compliant with all its regulatory obligations and any suggestion to the contrary would be “unfounded”.

However, staff in the branches visited by the couriers told BuzzFeed News they felt uncomfortable taking such enormous sums of cash and had repeatedly flagged the deposits as suspicious but were instructed to continue accepting the money.

BuzzFeed News has confirmed that around 18 months ago Santander Bank reviewed the unlimited amounts the company was previously allowed to deposit because of the large volumes of Lyca’s cash flowing through the Post Office into its accounts. It imposed limits of between £100,000 and £240,000 on the money the couriers could drop off at each branch after a series of Post Office tellers raised suspicions.

A senior Santander insider said that the evidence BuzzFeed News had assembled of how Lyca deposits cash was “eye-opening” for the bank. “I think this is something that we’ve identified and are attempting to do our appropriate duty on,” the source said. He also confided: “I suspect this is not the end of this one. I suspect things will progress probably partly due to the work you guys are doing.”

The Lyca group buys surplus international airtime and data from the major telecoms operators wholesale and sells it on cheap prepaid calling cards and SIMs to its 14 million customers – mostly migrants from Asia, Africa, and South America living in Europe – so they can “call the world for less”. Many of its customers pay for its goods in cash, although a Lycamobile insider told BuzzFeed News it sells the majority of its calling cards through large distributors that buy in bulk rather than directly to shop owners. Such distributors would not usually pay telecoms companies in cash but instead use bank transfers or other safe and efficient means.

Allirajah, the company’s founder, is worth £160 million, according to the Sunday Timesrich list. The Lyca group reported global sales of £1.1 billion last year, but it has consistently avoided paying UK corporation tax by moving revenue to the tax haven of Madeira through an intricate network of more than 60 companies.

The Tories have faced down heavy criticism for taking money from the firm, which was branded a “tax offender” by Margaret Hodge, then the chair of the Commons public accounts committee, two years ago. Allirajah, who spent £210,000 on a bronze bust of Margaret Thatcher at the party’s exclusive Black and White Ball this year, bought a membership in Cameron’s exclusive leader’s group for top donors.

The party is now facing mounting pressure to sever its ties with the company amid serious concerns about its unorthodox cash movements, chaotic accounting practices, avoidance of tax, and alleged links to a defunct foreign regime mired in corruption claims.

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BuzzFeed News began its investigation after being tipped off that cash couriers working at Lyca’s depot at a business park in Beckton were driving to branches of the Post Office and making suspiciously large cash deposits.

In a surveillance operation over five weeks in June and July this year, our reporters watched the men leave the depot in an unmarked black people carrier and followed them to Post Offices scattered across east London. They were secretly filmed handing sums of up to £240,000 over the counter in a red-and-black rucksack. BuzzFeed News established that at least 10 separate Post Office branches have been regularly used to deposit cash by the couriers dating back several years.

The three bagmen had a well-practised routine, but they were sometimes visibly tense and were occasionally seen arguing as they conducted their cash rounds.

They would set off around 9:30am each morning for a Post Office, where two of them would get out on foot to drop off the rucksack and a third would wait at the wheel of the people carrier nearby. Inside the branch, one would sit or stand with his back to the wall scanning the room while the cash was being deposited by the other. The rucksack was shoved through the parcel-drop hatch and taken away to be counted by a member of staff while the couriers waited. They then presented a Santander bank card, which was used to deposit the funds into one of the company’s bank accounts, before retrieving the empty rucksack and returning to the people carrier. They repeated the routine almost every afternoon.

On one occasion in July, a G4S driver in a security helmet and full-body armour was filmed arriving at the depot and loading his van with more than 40 bags of cash over a half-hour period. While the driver was at work, the three bagmen backed out of the yard past him in their unmarked people carrier and were followed to Hornchurch Post Office, where they deposited another bag of cash.

In some cases, Post Office staffers said the Lyca employees had offered cashiers mobile phones and calling cards, which they were forbidden from accepting. One teller was secretly filmed taking what appeared to be phone and a SIM card from one of the men. She could not be reached for interview.

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The bagmen load up on cash at AA Com. BuzzFeed News

In between the two Post Office drops in the morning and afternoon, the couriers were followed across the city to the offices of AA Com, a distributor of international calling cards above a beauty salon in Norbury, south London. There, they were filmed each day unloading from the boot of the people carrier boxes that were taken into the company’s hallway. Then they loaded an orange trolley with more boxes and, often, heavy bags full of cash from inside the office, which were wheeled along the pavement and transferred into the vehicle.

Staff at AA Com told BuzzFeed News reporters who visited the office that it sells its stock to agents, most of whom pay by bank transfer, but that some of its smaller customers pay in cash, which it either banks or passes to the Lyca couriers when they visit. However, the company declined to answer detailed questions sent in writing about why it so regularly hands over such large volumes of cash in plastic bags to the men from Lyca. There is no suggestion that AA Com is involved in impropriety.

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After the surveillance was concluded at the end of July, BuzzFeed News interviewed staff members at six of the Post Offices where the couriers had been followed: Bow, Lea Bridge Road, Walthamstow, Canning Town, South Woodford, and Hornchurch. They confirmed that the transactions had been going on for several years, and almost all of them had flagged suspicions with the Post Office’s investigators. However, they said Lyca had explained when questioned that the money was coming from shop sales of its calling cards. Santander had imposed limits on the amounts Lyca was allowed to deposit at each branch, they said, and the cash drops were allowed to continue. The tellers said they remained deeply uncomfortable about accepting such large volumes of cash, not least because it was difficult, time consuming, and risky to handle and count so much money.

Most of the nine staff members we spoke to said no other business customers paid in sums anything close to what the couriers regularly deposit. Most said the highest amounts any corporate customer ever brought in were around £10,000. The highest transaction anyone said they had seen, apart from the deposits by Lyca, was £26,000.

If Post Office tellers have concerns about a financial transaction they are being asked to make, they are duty-bound to flag their suspicions to their internal investigations team. The investigators then decide whether to file a formal suspicious activity report (SAR) to the National Crime Agency.

The Post Office declined to answer whether any of the suspicions about Lyca raised internally by their tellers had been referred to the NCA, but said it always passes on any concerns when appropriate. It said in a statement that it could not comment on Lyca’s cash deposits because it treats customer information with “the utmost sensitivity and confidentiality” and because “to disclose details of cash transactions … would jeopardise the security of our staff”. However, it stressed that: “We take our obligation to comply with Anti Money Laundering regulations very seriously and are fully compliant.” The statement said the Post Office would “wholly reject any inference to the contrary”.

BuzzFeed News is protecting the identities of the Post Office staff who spoke to our reporters. One teller who dealt with the couriers at Bow Post Office said the Lyca bagmen would bring £120,000 a week in bundles of £20, £10, and £5 notes. “We actually complained about these things because we couldn’t handle it,” the teller said, explaining that staff had to lay the cash out over the floor of their office in order to count it. “I think people have been getting pissed off and fed up with these things because I have to spend over an hour to bag those things up, and we have to check [the money count] three times.”

The teller said the branch had tried refusing to accept the cash, but the couriers had produced a letter from Santander authorising deposits of £120,000 a week into the Lyca account. The Post Office’s own cash collection drivers had told staff that the couriers were depositing similar sums all over London. After hearing that, the teller had told the couriers to take their money to another, bigger branch and refused to accept any more of their cash.

A teller at Canning Town Post Office told BuzzFeed News that the couriers used to haul in a “huge amount” of money that could be more than £200,000 at a time, but the sums they were allowed to deposit had been capped 18 months ago around £100,000 after the branch had repeatedly flagged suspicions. The teller also said the couriers had offered staff free mobile phones and SIM cards, but that they had been turned down because it would be against the rules to accept any gifts.

Two staff members at Hornchurch Post Office said the couriers had been visiting for years with bags of cash. They said the couriers did not like them to unpack the money at the counter, as they usually would, but insisted that they take the rucksack into a backroom to count it away from public view.

One of the Hornchurch tellers called the huge cash deposits “suspicious” and said “three different managers” had flagged the cash transactions to the Post Office’s investigators. But even after the amount Lyca could deposit had been capped at £240,000, the tellers said, the company’s couriers had continued trying to exceed it by as much as £50,000 a week: “They think we’re silly. We’ve got rules; we stick by them.”

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Staff at Lyca’s bank, Santander, are also responsible for monitoring the flow of cash and filing SARs if they identify any unusual activity. The bank said in a statement that while it treated that responsibility seriously, it could not comment on the record about its banking relationship with Lyca, or even confirm the company was a client.

However, an insider confirmed that the bank had imposed limits on the amount of money the company could deposit in the Post Office “as part of our due diligence … that would have flagged there’s significant money coming in and we need to put a cap on it”. The insider said Lyca was among the bank’s most “cash-rich” clients and agreed that the sums of money it deposited in the Post Office were extraordinary.

Lyca has explained when questioned that the cash it stores at its Beckton depot, and deposits in Santander through the Post Office, is collected from customers who retail its calling cards all over London.

During the surveillance, a reporter was detained by police after the bagmen realised they were being followed and dialled 999. Detectives from the flying squad at the Met later explained to BuzzFeed News that the men had feared they were being targeted by armed robbers because they were carrying large amounts of cash in their van. Lyca had told detectives that the firm was “cash rich” because it collected money from customers in shops all over London and that they “don’t like using banks to transfer the money over”.

BuzzFeed News has since learned that police have warned the company its staff are “sitting ducks” for armed robbers if they keep transporting money in unarmoured vehicles with no security. “We were all surprised at the amount of money going over the pavement and why they were doing that sort of thing,” a Scotland Yard source said. “As you can see from your surveillance, they got a bag with £100,000-plus and they are quite happy to walk out with it.”

A well-placed Scotland Yard source told BuzzFeed News that the cash couriers were also stopped by police from the Met’s serious and economic crime command several years ago with a rucksack stuffed with about £100,000, which was seized but ultimately returned. The source said Lyca had been advised to hire a secure cash-in-transit service such as G4S to transport its cash to the bank, saying that driving it around in unmarked cars was “very strange”.

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The bagmen deposited cash in Hornchurch Post Office straight after a G4S van had arrived to collect 40 sacks of money from the Lyca depot. BuzzFeed News

Former staff members at the company have raised questions about why it needs to handle so much cash. A former head of operations at Lycamobile, who spoke to BuzzFeed News on condition of anonymity, said that much of the company’s sales are not to retail outlets that deal directly with customers and therefore take payment in cash, but rather to distributors: middleman companies that buy calling cards and SIMs in bulk. He added that the Lyca group had a bewilderingly complex structure with hundreds of different bank accounts.

A former regional manager at Lycamobile, who also asked to remain anonymous, said the company often opted to deal in cash and raised concerns that it did not keep proper sales records.

BuzzFeed News showed the evidence gathered during its surveillance to four financial experts who all said that the company’s handling of its cash was highly unusual.

A former detective in the Met’s fraud squad, Simon Baker, said that while “there may be very good reasons … why a mobile phone company [is] receiving large volumes of small denominations of cash”, he could not understand why the company would ask its staff to drive it around to different Post Offices rather than sending it straight to the bank.

He said patterns of scattered deposits in different locations can be used as a way of creating deliberate confusion about the flow of money. “It would not be the way one would expect a normal big business to conduct its affairs and as such there is an element of concern that would tip over with what you’re showing me here into reasonable suspicion that requires some further investigation,” he said. “This seems to be a very loose arrangement – it seems to be slightly off the radar. It looks a little bit chaotic and disorganised … Either you have a company that has poor practice or there’s deliberately a little bit of organised confusion to maybe hide some nefarious activity.”

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BuzzFeed News began its investigation shortly after Lycamobile UK was censured by its new auditor this May for failing to keep proper financial records related to sales of its prepaid calling cards and SIMs. Its previous accountancy firm, Ernst & Young, had resigned in May last year and was replaced by KPMG. The new auditor identified almost£46 million of revenue that Lycamobile had previously not declared, a significant amount of which arose from unused airtime on calling cards it had sold dating back an unknown number of years. KPMG qualified the latest accounts this May, noting that it had been impossible to perform proper checks on this aspect of the firm’s finances because: “We have not obtained all the information and explanations that we considered necessary for the purpose of our audit and in our opinion we have been unable to determine if adequate accounting records have been kept.” Ernst & Young declined to explain the reasons for its resignation when contacted by BuzzFeed News, but said at the time that there were no factors it felt obligated to declare.

The Lyca business empire is a highly complex web of more than more than 60 entities spanning at least 19 countries, headed by the British companies Lycamobile UK and WWW Holding Company, which parents a network of subsidiaries. The corporate structure has been described by experts as being perfectly geared to avoid tax in the UK by moving money offshore. Most of the group’s revenue flows ultimately to the tax haven of Madeira, where the intellectual property rights to its branding are squirrelled away. The Madeira companies buy up the airtime and sell it to the rest of the group.

After KPMG arrived, Lycamobile UK recognised a small corporate tax liability for the first time in eight years of £1.16 million on the newly increased revenue of £201 million. However, it is not possible to say whether it has paid the bill because its latest accounts have not yet been filed.

The firm has repeatedly come close to being struck off for being late filing its accounts, which is technically a criminal offence under the Companies Act and can lead to prosecution. The accounts for the year end of WWW Holding Company are now almost a year late.

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Internal emails from the Conservative party’s fundraising department, seen by BuzzFeed News, reveal that the party accepted Lycamobile’s money days after being warned by its own compliance team about its repeated late filing of accounts.

The emails relate to meetings between Lycamobile lobbyist Dr Anwara Ali, the then Tory party treasurer Peter Cruddas, and party chair Andrew Feldman to discuss a donation of £110,000 in 2012. The donation was to cover two £50,000 memberships of the Leader’s Group, the elite dining club through which top Tory donors mingle with the prime minister and members of the cabinet, as well as a £10,000 injection into Boris Johnson’s campaign for re-election as mayor of London.

When Cruddas emailed Conservative campaign headquarters to tell them he and Feldman had a coffee meeting arranged with Ali, he received a sharp response from Mike Chattey, the party’s head of fundraising. Chattey asked: “What is the Dr Ali meeting about please? She promised me the issue of late filing of accounts would be sorted by last Friday … and compliance tell me they are still late. … Clearly if this is none of my biz – tell me.”

Cruddas replied that Chattey was welcome to come to the meeting to push Ali to provide a letter that had been requested by compliance, but reassured him that the issues raised were “not a problem”.

The following day, Lycamobile provided a single-sentence letter confirming that “the company is carrying on business in the United Kingdom”. However, its accounts had still not been filed and the company remained at risk of being struck off at the time the party accepted the company’s donation.

Ali followed up after the meeting with an email thanking the party for the “welcome, kindness and generosity it had shown to Lycamobile”, and promising to help advise on business and delivering “Bangladeshi, Tamil, Indian, Muslim and Hindu votes any way we can”.

The party said in a statement: “All donations to the Conservative Party are properly and transparently declared to the Electoral Commission, published by them, and comply fully with Electoral Commission rules. Election law requires a party to satisfy itself that a corporate donor is “carrying on business in the UK”.

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Subaskaran Allirajah has hobnobbed with David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Prince Charles, and Prince Harry.

After receiving the company’s donation to his re-election campaign, mayor of London Boris Johnson praised the company publicly, saying it was “just like the capital’s economy – international, dynamic, successful and growing”. He added: “I think it’s a wonderful business, what a fantastic thing you’re doing.”

However, the party came under fire the following year when it emerged that one of its biggest donors had avoided paying any corporation tax in the UK. Hodge, the then chair of the Commons public accounts committee of MPs, branded Lycamobile a “tax offender” and lashed out at the government for taking money from a company that was not making its “fair contribution to the common good”. The Labour MP Paul Flynn said the group’s financial affairs were “outrageous” and that “the situation cries out for investigation and exposure”.

The criticism came only months after chancellor George Osborne called for reform of global tax rules that have enabled “profit shifting” by multinationals and promised to clamp down on tax avoidance schemes. Lyca defended itself at the time by saying that all profits had been reinvested to grow each company in the group and that when they matured corporation tax would be paid.

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In November 2013 , Cameron was urged to investigate Lycamobile’s links to then Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa, who had been accused of rampant corruption and war crimes. The Labour MP Tom Blenkinsop wrote to the prime minister warning that Lycamobile was “closely associated with the Sri Lankan government” through a variety of sweetheart business deals.

Cameron continued accepting its donations. He also controversially visited Sri Lanka and met with Rajapaksa in 2013, following the Commonwealth Business Forum in Colombo at which Lycamobile was the gold sponsor and other major Tory donors were present.

The Labour MP who wrote to Cameron warning him about Lyca’s links to the Rajapaksa family called on the party to urgently investigate its connections to Rajapaksa in light of the evidence gathered by BuzzFeed News. “It sounds like they don’t even know where their money is coming from,” he said. “I would hope the Conservative party immediately investigate it and freeze any such money that they receive from Lycamobile.”

Allirajah has previously denied allegations about his connections to Rajapaksa. But investigators in Sri Lanka have told BuzzFeed News that a company jointly owned by a key arm of the Lyca empire and the nephew of the former president will be investigated over a “shady” deal with the state telecoms company as part of a probe into alleged corruption.

Lyca is still doing business in Sri Lanka. When journalists from BuzzFeed News visited the company’s London headquarters to put their questions to Allirajah earlier this month, they found a set of documents lying in the reception area relating to a new deal it is scoping in Colombo. The document was copied and quickly returned the same evening, but not before Lyca had called the police and reported it as stolen. It shows the group is looking into buying into a firm closely connected to Sri Lanka Telecom – the same majority state-owned company whose deal with the Lyca empire is now being scrutinised by the authorities.

There is no suggestion that there is anything improper about Lyca’s latest foray into Sri Lanka. But tomorrow, BuzzFeed News will reveal internal documents, testimony from insiders, and interviews with government figures that lay bare the secrets of the earlier deal, which is coming under investigation as part of the worldwide probe into Rajapaksa’s decade of alleged corruption.

Tomorrow: the inside story of the secret deal between the Lyca empire and the nephew of a despot.

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Lycamobile’s Offshore Empire Is Embroiled In Sri Lanka’s Hunt For Stolen Assets

A BuzzFeed News investigation uncovers secret details of a “shady” deal between the offshore empire of a major Tory donor and the nephew of the former Sri Lankan president accused of corruption and war crimes.

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The offshore empire of the Lycamobile tycoon Subaskaran Allirajah is facing investigation as part of a sprawling international probe into allegations that billions of dollars were stolen from Sri Lanka by associates of the country’s former president Mahinda Rajapaksa.

BuzzFeed News has uncovered secret details of a deal being scrutinised by the Sri Lankan authorities in which the state telecoms company was effectively forced to pump around $10 million into a “completely flawed” venture owned jointly by a relative of Rajapaksa and a key offshore company in the Lycamobile business network.

Senior government and police officials in Colombo, Sri Lanka, told BuzzFeed News that the newly inaugurated financial crimes division of the Sri Lankan police is launching a probe into the venture, Sky Network, which they suspect was a “shell company” that the president’s nephew used to enrich himself through a “shady transaction”.

Allirajah has strongly denied allegations about his association with the autocrat, who is accused of rampant corruption and human rights atrocities during his decade in power. He insisted last year that he had no business in Sri Lanka and had never met Rajapaksa or dealt with his relatives. But now BuzzFeed News has obtained conclusive evidence – from corporate documents, insiders, and government officials – that his empire did business with the Rajapaksa family. Company filings in Colombo show that Sky Network was 95% owned by a key arm of Lycamobile’s corporate web and the former president’s nephew, who sat on the board alongside the telecoms giant’s then chief executive.

The revelations will pile further pressure on David Cameron to sever his ties with Allirajah, whose company has donated more than £1.3 million to the Tories. The party has previously brushed off explicit warnings about the donor’s links to the Rakapaksa family and continued accepting gifts running to more than £500,000 in this year alone.

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David Cameron visited Colombo to meet Rajapaksa in 2013 at the same time as Prince Charles following the Commonwealth Business Forum sponsored by Lycamobile. Last year, a photo emerged of Allirajah apparently disembarking a military helicopter, but he denied it was provided by the regime and said he had rented it. Getty / Reuters / Supplied

The prime minister is already facing calls to hand back the money after BuzzFeed Newsyesterday revealed secret footage of three Lyca bagmen depositing rucksacks stuffed with hundreds of thousands of pounds in cash at Post Offices all over London. The company said it was a cash-rich business and that the deposits were just above-board “day to day banking” but experts including the former director of public prosecutions Lord MacDonald said they were “deeply suspicious” and called for an urgent investigation.

There is no evidence to suggest that the corruption claims in Colombo are connected to the company’s unusual cash deposits in London, but they raise further serious questions about the way the Lyca group conducts its business. The firm, which declared £1.1 billion in global turnover last year and is rapidly expanding in the United States, has avoided UK corporation tax for years by moving revenues out of the country through a complex offshore network. Some of that money ends up in Hastings Trading e Serviços Lda – the Madeira company that acquired 95% of Sky Network, with the president’s nephew retaining the other 5%.

BuzzFeed News interviewed two former executives at Sri Lanka Telecom who said the majority state-owned firm was all but forced to pour millions of dollars into Sky Network and got nothing in return. A senior detective in the Sri Lankan police force said it had “started the legal process of investigation” into the deal, and the country’s deputy foreign minister confirmed that the new probe was part of the wider international hunt for assets allegedly stolen during Rajapaksa’s decade of kleptocracy.

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Speaking animatedly about a container of gold he believed Rajapaksa’s family had hidden under the sea, cabinet spokesman Rajitha Senaratne sat in an office that epitomised the challenge of a developing nation trying to find and retrieve precious assets now dispersed around the world. Cream-coloured paint peeled off the walls of the government building. There was no air conditioning, only fans which needed restarting every so often. A torn sign sellotaped to the unmanned reception desk warned: ‘Please do not put weight on…’ The car park was riddled with potholes full of monsoon rain.

Searching for Sri Lanka’s embezzled billions is a daunting task for the new regime, which came to power when Rajapaksa was finally ousted by voters in January this year, especially because it presides over a country still emerging from decades of civil war. Senaratne told BuzzFeed News that investigators believe the Rajapaksa family has gone to extraordinary lengths to hide stolen assets from the state. “They took about 11 containers of cash and gold from the presidential palace,” he said. “We understand they have sealed the containers and taken some underground, and they have dropped one in the sea – we do not know the exact site but we know the area.”

In total, the new government estimates the former president and his cronies have hidden at least $10 billion through a web of offshore accounts, various associates, and business ventures around the world. They believe $5.31 billion was taken out of Sri Lanka in 2013 alone. And they are determined to find the money and bring it home.

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Rajapaksa and his wife (right) received state visits from the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall during his decade in power. The official feed from Clarence House is one of the few accounts he follows on Twitter — along with that of Lord Sugar’s business advisor on The Apprentice, Nick Hewer. Getty / Reuters

Rajapaksa was both feared and revered during his decade in the presidential palace. Many on the island nation of 20 million consider him a hero for finally crushing the 26-year armed rebellion by the separatist Tamil Tigers. But his forces committed war crimes including rape, torture, bombing hospitals, and killing tens of thousands of civilians,according to the UN. He presided over a nepotistic circle that controlled, by some estimates, as much as 70% of the government’s budget and five of the largest ministries.

Rajapaksa has consistently denied any wrongdoing. But since January, when he lost the presidency to his former ally Maithripala Sirisena, the new Sri Lankan government’s wide-ranging corruption investigation has circled around the former president, arresting one of his brothers, summoning another to appear before the Bribery Commission, and questioning his wife.

The UK Serious Fraud Office has been providing training to Sri Lankan investigators, and the World Bank and International Monetary Fund are helping to coordinate the hunt for looted assets across the globe, including in the Seychelles, Dubai, India, the US, and Europe.

The task ahead is gargantuan, but Senaratne said there had been some early successes: For example, he said, investigators found more than $1 billion hidden in a Dubai bank account belonging to Rajapaksa’s nephew Himal Hettiarachchi. It is the same nephew whom the company in Allirajah’s Lyca empire joined forces with in the telecoms deal which is now under scrutiny.

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The civil war was still raging when Greg Young took the helm of Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) as chief executive in February 2009. His first year, he recalled, was “miserable”. The energetic Australian executive had been parachuted into his new position by Malaysian shareholders who wanted him to get to grips with lax business practices at the company, but he said he soon found that insiders tried to block his moves at every turn. SLT had entered into a variety of deals before Young arrived that he said struck him as bizarre. One of those involved a company called Sky Network.

Young discovered that SLT had poured millions of dollars into a joint venture with Sky Network, a company which at that point had no income and was valued at a mere 20 rupees – less than £1. SLT had joined the ill-fated venture to access high-speed data frequencies that became obsolete soon after Young arrived at SLT. The new executive was baffled by the move and began sniffing around. Eventually, he pieced together what had happened – and his account is supported by internal corporate documents, a second former high-ranking executive with deep knowledge of the Sky Network deal who requested anonymity, and the country’s deputy foreign minister.

Sky Network was set up in 2006 and registered to the home address of Rajapaksa’s nephew on Old Kottawa Road, a narrow street in Colombo where the odd palm tree can be glimpsed through the clouds of dirt kicked up by dozens of rickshaws and cars. The company lay dormant for a year, until April 2007, when Hettiarachchi listed himself as a director; around the same time, 95% of its shares were acquired by Hasting Trading e Serviços Lda, based in the Portuguese tax haven of Madeira. Hettiarachchi, a software engineer, retained the remaining 5%. What Young didn’t know was that this company was a major outpost of the Lycamobile empire, owned by the telecoms mogul Allirajah.

Hastings controlled Lycamobile’s intellectual property and trademarks and is 90.5% owned by Allirajah’s wife, Premantharshini Subaskaran, according to the most recent accounts for Lycamobile UK. The other shareholders are unknown. A few months after it acquired almost all the shares in Sky Network, Lycamobile’s then chief executive, Milind Kangle, took a seat on the Sky Network’s board of directors alongside Hettiarachchi.

With no customers or assets, Sky Network did not have much going for it. But around the same time as the deal with the Lyca offshoot was sealed, the fledgling venture suddenly had a stroke of lucrative luck. In March 2007 the government telecoms regulator awarded it three licenses for access to coveted high-speed data frequencies – licenses the government had repeatedly denied to SLT.

The majority state-owned telecoms firm had long sought access to faster “Wimax” internet frequencies, but all their entreaties were rebuffed by the government regulator. Instead, the 1-year-old venture headed by the president’s nephew was given access to the frequencies, putting Sky Network in a gilded position.

In June 2007, the company reached out to SLT. The state telecoms company was welcome to piggyback on Sky Network’s new Wimax frequencies, but it would have to pay an eye-watering price. Young and the other company executive said SLT was being held over a barrel: to get access to the high-speed frequencies it felt it desperately needed to compete in the market, it had to do business with the president’s nephew.

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Rajapaksa’s nephew Himal Hettiarachchi (left) and Lycamobile’s then CEO Milind Kangle (middle) were both directors of Sky Network. A leaked SLT memo said Chris Tooley (right), the current CEO of the telecoms giant, was also on the board. Getty / i-images / Supplied

A memo submitted to the SLT board in June 2007 and leaked to the Sunday Leadernoted: “SLT has already applied for the WiMax frequency from the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL) but despite repeated reminders there has still been no progress to obtain these frequencies … Lyca Group in UK which is a virtual operator in UK has approached SLT for business through its 95% owned subsidiary, Sky Network, which has been given WiMax frequency to operate islandwide.” The memo listed another Lyca executive, its current CEO, Chris Tooley, as a board member of Sky Network, along with the then CEO Milind Kangle and Rajapaksa’s nephew Hettiarachchi. It isn’t known how involved Kangle and Tooley were in the day-to-day running of Sky Network or its deal with SLT.

 

By early 2008, SLT had agreed to what Young blasted as a “completely flawed” joint venture with Sky Network to offer high-speed broadband services, similar to 4G, to customers. SLT would put up 70% of the costs but would only get a 40% cut of the profits. The remaining 60% would be retained by Lyca’s Madeira company and Rajapaksa’s nephew.

SLT poured approximately $10 million into the venture over four years, according to its former CEO Young. Documents seen by BuzzFeed News show how the state telecoms company poured money into developing the Wimax technology while Sky Network was supposed to bring in the customers. But when Young took over the company, he found that Sky Network was “never able to successfully capture a customer.”

The venture had run into the sand, the Australian said, and the high-speed technology at the heart of the deal was already becoming obsolete. “It was a failed concept,” said Young. “We basically brought a halt to everything.” After an impairment test ordered by the company’s auditor determined that there was no prospect of Sky Network generating any income in the foreseeable future, SLT was told it had to take a write-off on the deal.

Young said he could see no good business reason for SLT having bought into Sky Network: “It was a company that effectively had no assets, had no operations, and had no value – so effectively SLT bought something, paid for it, and it had no value.”

But it had value to Rajapaksa’s nephew Hettiarachchi, who “was given an office, a car, a driver, an expense allowance, and a very generous salary”, said Young. He said Hettiarachchi was paid around $5,000 a month yet had almost nothing to do with the running of the business, only turning up to board meetings once every couple of months. “So we were just forking out of SLT to actually pay his salary and costs, because [Sky Network] wasn’t generating any income.”

Young told Buzzfeed News that the deal was “brokered and presided over” by the SLT chair at the time, Leisha Chandrasena, who was apparently close to Rajapaksa. “It was always reported that she was a classmate of his from law school and she came out of nowhere; no one had heard of her – she was not a prominent lawyer or anything like that,” Young said. “And then one day she was suddenly the chair of the third-largest public business in the country and everyone is asking the question about what was her qualification or credentials to chair a large company. She always alleged that she was close to the president, and certainly there was a lot of evidence of that.” SLT’s former CFO confirmed Young’s account that Chandrasena was “very close to the ex-president”.

During the former president’s time in power, the family would often try to influence the running of publicly owned SLT, according to Young. “One Saturday afternoon, I was at home and the main house phone rang,” he said. It was the first lady, Shirianthi Rajapaksa. “A particular person had been employed under very dubious circumstances and their employment was coming up for renewal and I got a call from the first lady saying, ‘Yes, you WILL renew their employment.”

Documents obtained by BuzzFeed News show that Hettiarachchi stepped away from Sky Network as a director in June 2011. Today, SLT owns 99.9% of the failed venture, and the former president’s nephew and his business partner from the Lyca empire retain just a tiny fraction of the shares.

In the past, Allirajah has been loosely linked to Rajapaksa. During the former president’s time in power, Lyca’s travel agency Lycafly was made the preferred partner of Sri Lankan Airlines, which is chaired by Rajapaksa’s brother-in-law. Lyca Productions also recently funded a film which Tamil groups claimed were propaganda funded by the Rajapaksa regime. Lycamobile was also the “gold sponsor” of the Commonwealth Business Forum, which took place in in Colombo alongside David Cameron’s controversial visit to Rajapaksa in 2013.

Allirajah has denied ties to Rajapaksa and his family. Neither he nor Lycamobile, including CEO Tooley, responded to questions about the Sky Network deal. When asked about his role, former Lyca CEO Kangle said: “I am totally unaware of the subject matter … and I therefore emphatically deny any knowledge or involvement in the matter relating to your story.” That’s despite the fact that he was listed as a director of Sky Network on documents obtained by BuzzFeed News. Hettiarachchi and former SLT chair Chandrasena could not be reached for comment.

Last Sunday evening at the Allirajahs’ gated home in Essex, the tycoon’s wife, Premantharshini Subaskaran, shook her head and showed no knowledge when asked about Hastings Trading e Servicos and its Sky Network deal with Rajapaksa’s nephew. Allirajah has not responded to repeated requests for comment.

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Lyca is still doing business in Sri Lanka. When journalists from BuzzFeed News visited the company’s London headquarters to put their questions to Allirajah earlier this month, they found a document lying in the reception area relating to a new deal it is scoping in Colombo. The document was copied and quickly returned the same evening, but not before Lyca had called the police and reported it stolen. It shows that the group is looking into buying into a firm closely connected to SLT. There is no suggestion that there is anything improper about Lyca’s latest foray into Sri Lanka.

But at the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where a soldier sat outside on a rickshaw reading a book, a rifle casually propped by his side, deputy foreign minister Harsha De Silva told BuzzFeed News that the Sky Network deal “certainly is” being investigated as part of the wider Rajapaksa corruption probe.

“I remember that was a very shady transaction, where a large amount of money was paid to purchase some company without any assets,” he said. “At the end of the day I think everyone realised that it [Sky Network] was just a shell company.”

Meanwhile, a senior detective in the Sri Lankan police force who told BuzzFeed News he had started to launch an investigation, sat in his office, the scent of incense wafting up from sticks burning beside a statue of Buddha. On top of his imposing wooden desk, alongside four mobile phones, lay a dark blue folder. On the front of it, typed in capital letters, were the words “LYCA MOBILE INVESTIGATION”.

The cash drops: This Tory Donor Was Secretly Filmed Dropping Cash-Stuffed Rucksacks at the Post Office

The Conservative Connection: 16 Things You Need To Know About Lycamobile’s Links to the Tories

Follow the money: Tory Donor’s Crazy Cash Trail In 20 GIFs And Pictures

Tomorrow: How Lycamobile’s main rival hired corporate spies to dig dirt on its finances.

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Labour Demands Tories Stop Accepting Donations From Lycamobile

The party has written to Conservative chair Lord Feldman following an investigation by BuzzFeed News.

posted on Oct. 8, 2015, at 10:47 a.m.
 
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Lycamobile chair Subaskaran Allirajah i-images

Labour has written to the Conservatives to demand they do not accept any more donations from Lycamobile until they have carried out a probe into the company,following a BuzzFeed News investigation that raised serious questions about the telecoms giant’s suspicious business practices.

Jon Ashworth, a member of Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet, has sent a letter to Conservative chair Lord Feldman requesting clarification on whether the party was aware of “unorthodox” activities by the Lycamobile group, which has donated £1.3 million to the Tories.

Lyca employees were filmed by BuzzFeed News dropping rucksacks stuffed with hundreds of thousands of pounds twice a day at post offices across London. Lord MacDonald, the former director of public prosecutions, said the activity was “deeply suspicious” and called for an urgent investigation by the authorities.

BuzzFeed News also revealed that Lycamobile’s offshore empire is embroiled in a worldwide corruption probe over a “shady transaction” with the family of Mahinda Rajapaksa, the former Sri Lankan despot accused of war crimes and corruption. Labour has previously warned the Conservatives about Lycamobile’s links to the Rajapaksa regime.

The opposition party has now has asked Feldman to confirm that Lycamobile is “the sort of organisation you are happy to take donations from” and has demanded the Tories stop taking money from the company until they have further assurances about the business.

Ashworth, the shadow minister without portfolio, concluded by asking the party to “confirm what conversations have taken place between the party and Lycamobile to ensure that the business practices revealed by Buzzfeed News are legitimate and provide reassurances that no further donations will be accepted from the company until the necessary investigations are completed”.

Labour’s letter comes after BuzzFeed News revealed last night that Lyca was reported to the police last year after its biggest corporate rival hired private investigators to tail its bagmen as they made their Post Office deposits. A file containing “prima facie evidence of money laundering” was passed to the National Crime Agency (NCA) by Lebara – Lyca’s main competitor in the market for prepaid calling cards and SIMs – but the police refused to say what action, if any, had been taken as a result.

Read the full letter to Lord Feldman here:

7 October 2015

Dear Lord Feldman,

I was concerned this week to read about the unorthodox business practices of Lycamobile – a major donor to the Conservative Party – and am writing to seek assurances from you that this matter is being treated with the seriousness it deserves.

As you will no doubt be aware, a five-month investigation by Buzzfeed News revealed that the company has used an unmarked people carrier to deposit bags of money totalling up to £1 million each week. Lord MacDonald QC, the former Director for Public Prosecutions, has said that the behaviour of the company is “not the way a normal business deposits its cash” and that it is “deeply suspicious” and “demands serious investigation”.

I agree with Lord MacDonald and note that Buzzfeed has also reported that Lycamobile has donated more than £1.3 million to the Conservative Party since David Cameron became Prime Minister, including over £500,000 this year alone.

I further note that my colleague Tom Blenkinsop MP has previously raised concerns with the Prime Minister about the company’s close links with the former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his regime.

It is clear that serious questions need to be answered on this issue. The Prime Minister himself once said that sunlight was the best disinfectant. With that in mind, please could you explain what checks have been carried in relation to Lycamobile and confirm that you are satisfied that this company is the sort of organisation you are happy to take donations from.

Please could you also confirm what conversations have taken place between the party and Lycamobile to ensure that the business practices revealed by Buzzfeed News are legitimate and provide reassurances that no further donations will be accepted from the company until the necessary investigations are completed.

I look forward to your response.

Yours sincerely,

Jonathan Ashworth MP

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மேற்கில் ஒரு பில்லிஒனர் கிளப் ஒன்று இருக்கு 
நாட்டு அரசியலையே அதுதான் நிர்ணயிக்கிறது 
உலகில் பல போர்கள் மக்கள் அழிவுகள் எல்லாம் 
பணமே மூலமாக இருக்கிறது.

இந்த கிளப்புக்குள் புதிதாக யாரும் புக முடியாது.
அதுவும் மூன்றாம் தர நாட்டவர்கள் எட்டியும் பார்க்க முடியாது.

ஊழல் லஞ்சம் வரி எய்ப்பு இல்லாமல் ஒரு மெகா கொம்பனியை காட்டமுடியுமா?

அப்பிள் அயர்லாந்தில் ஒரு இரண்டுமாடி கட்டுடத்தை வைத்துகொண்டு அதுதான் தனது ஹெட் ஒபிஸ் என்கிறது.
அமெரிக்காவிற்கு எல்லா வரியும் நாங்கள் அங்கே கட்டிவிட்டோம் என்கிறது. இங்கே வித்த போன்களின் வரி விட்கும்போதே கட்டபடுகிறது தானே ?
என்று வேற கேள்வி கேட்கிறது. 

முன்பு ஒரு திரியில் எழுதுனேன் இவருடைய முடிவு இப்படிதான் போகும் என்று.
தேடி கிடைத்தல் இங்கு இணைத்து விடுகிறேன். 

இவர் புத்திசாலி என்றால் இந்தியாவிற்கு நகர்ந்து இருக்க வேண்டும்.
குறைந்த செலவில் ஊழல் ... திறமான ஐ டி பணியாளர்கள் 
உலகமெல்லாம் பரவி இருக்கலாம். 

ஆழம் பார்த்து காலை விட வேண்டும். 

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நன்றி : பஸ்பீட்நன்றி : பஸ்பீட்

ராஜபக்ச என்ற இனக்கொலையாளியுடன் தமிழர்களால் நடத்தப்படும் லைக்கா மொபைல் என்ற நிறுவனத்தின் வியாபார மற்றும் அரசியல் தொடர்புகளை இனியொரு உட்பட பல்வேறு ஊடகங்கள் தொடர்ச்சியாக வெளியிட்டுவந்தன. இவற்றை வெளியிட்ட காரணத்தால் லங்கா நியூஸ் வெப் மற்றும் இனியொரு… ஆகிய இணைய ஊடகங்கள் பல நாட்கள் தொடர்ச்சியாக தாக்குதலுக்கு உள்ளாக்கப்பட்டு முடக்கிவைக்கப்பட்டிருந்தன.

ஊடக சுதந்திரம் குறித்தும், மனித உரிமை குறித்தும் வாய் கிழியக் கூச்சலிடும் புலம்பெயர் ஊடகங்களில் பெரும்பாலானவை இத் தாக்குதலுக்குக் கண்டனம் எதுவும் தெரிவிக்காமல் தம்மை முழுமையான வியாபாரிகள் என நிறுவிக்கொண்டன. லைக்கா மோபைல் எனச் சந்தேகிக்கப்படும் தரப்புக்களிலிருந்து பல்வேறு மரண அச்சுறுத்தல்களுக்கு இனியொரு… உள்ளாக்கப்பட்டது.

லைக்கா மொபைலின் ஒட்டு ஊடகம் ஒன்று இனியொருவிற்கு எதிரான நேரடியான அவதூறுகளை வெளியிட்டது.

கடந்த வாரம் பஸ் பீட் (http://www.buzzfeed.com/) என்ற செய்தி முகவர் சேவை நிறுவனம் ஒன்று லைக்கா மொபைல் தொடர்பான பல்வேறு தகவல்களை வெளியிட்டு வருகின்றது.

குறிப்பாக லைக்கா மொபைலின் சட்டவிரோத நடவடிக்கைகள் எனச் சந்தேகிக்கப்படும் தகவல்கள் சிலவற்றை வீடியோ ஆதாரங்களுடன் வெளியிட்டுள்ளது.

இனியொருவைப் பொறுத்தவரை லைக்கா மொபைலின் வியாபார வட்டத்திற்குள்ளும் போட்டிகளுக்குள்ளும் தலையிடுவது நோக்கமல்ல. பல்தேசிய நிறுவனங்களின் சமூகவிரோத நடவடிக்கைளை மக்களுக்குத் தெரியப்படுத்தும் பணியை இனியொரு தொடர்ந்து மேற்கொள்ளும்.

தெற்காசியாவின் தொலைத் தொடர்பு மற்றும் தகவல் பரிமாற்றச் சேவையில் மையமாக மாறிவரும் இலங்கை அரசின் தயவைப் பெற்றுக்கொள்வதற்காக லைக்கா நிறுவனம் பல்வேறு நடவடிக்கைகளில் ஈடுபட்டுவந்தது. இனக்கொலையாளி ராஜபக்ச குடும்பத்துடன் நெருங்கிய வியாபார உறவுகளைப் பேணிய லைக்கா, அவர்களுடன் இணைந்து இலங்கை மக்களின் வரிப்பணத்தைச் சுருட்டிக்கொண்டது.

2009 ஆம் ஆண்டு இனப்படுகொலைக்கு முற்பட்ட காலத்திலிருந்தே ராஜபக்ச அரசுடன் வியாபார நடவடிக்கைகளில் ஈடுபட்டுவந்த லைக்காவின் நடவடிக்கைகள் இன்றைய இலங்கை அரசாலும் விசாரணைக்கு உட்படுத்தப்படவில்லை. மாறாக லைக்காவின் மாதிரிக் கிராமத்தை சந்திரிக்கா பண்டாரநாயக்க குமாரணதுங்க திறந்துவைத்துள்ளார்.
தமிழீழம் பிடித்துத் தருவதாகவும், தேசியத்தைக் காப்பாற்றப்போவதாகவும், ராஜபக்சவைத் தூக்கில் போடப்போவதாகவும் இதுவரை கூறிவந்த புலம்பெயர் பிழைப்புவாதக் கும்பல்கள் லைக்காவின் நடவடிக்கைகள் குறித்து மூச்சுவிடுவதில்லை.

பஸ் பீட் இன் புலனாய்வுச் செய்திகள் லைக்காவைச் சட்டச் சிக்கலுக்கு உட்படுத்துமா என்பது பிரித்தானிய அரசு சார்ந்த விடையம். புலம்பெயர் தமிழர்களால் பயன்படுத்தப்படும் லைக்கா மொபைல் இன் ஊடாக இலங்கை செல்லும் தொலைத் தொடர்பு சேவை இலங்கையிலுள்ள லைக்கா கிளையில் உடறுக்கப்பட்டு ஒட்டுக் கேட்கப்பட்டதா என்பது போர்க்குற்றம் சார்ந்த விடையம்.

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