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The Rajapaksa family

Family ties, offices held, court rulings and police inquiries involving Mahinda, Basil, Shiranthi, Namal, Yoshitha, Rohitha and Shasheendra Rajapaksa, as reported between 2017 and 2026. Dashed links are arrests, charges or inquiries that no court has upheld.

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People (19)

• Anura Kumara Dissanayake
  • President of Sri Lanka since September 2024; leader of the National People’s Power
• Aravinda de Silva
  • Former Sri Lanka cricketer
• Basil Rajapaksa
  • Finance minister until April 2022; SLPP national organiser until March 2024
• Chamal Rajapaksa
  • Minister of Irrigation from August 2020; member of the Rajapaksa family named in the list of cases tabled in Parliament in October 2026
• Daisy Forrest
• Gotabaya Rajapaksa
  • President of Sri Lanka, elected November 2019; Defence Secretary until 2015
• Kapila ChandrasenaDeceased
  • Chief executive of SriLankan Airlines at the time of its 2013 Airbus purchase
• Mahinda Rajapaksa
  • President of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015; prime minister until May 2022
• Namal RajapaksaIn custody
  • Member of Parliament (SLPP); presidential candidate in 2024; SLPP national organiser from March 2024
• Nirupama Rajapaksa
• Rohitha Rajapaksa
• Shamindra Rajapaksa
  • Former board member of SriLankan Airlines
• Shasheendra Rajapaksa
  • Former State Minister
• Shiranthi RajapaksaOn bail
  • Former First Lady
• Thirukumar Nadesan
  • Businessman
• Udayanga Weeratunga
  • Former Sri Lankan Ambassador to Russia
• Wasantha KarannagodaOn bail
  • Former Commander of the Navy; Admiral of the Fleet
• Wasantha Samarasinghe
  • Convener of Voice Against Corruption; Minister of Trade from November 2024
• Yoshitha RajapaksaOn bail

Organisations (8)

• Central Crime Investigation Bureau
  • Police investigation unit
• Colombo Crimes Division
  • Police investigation unit
• Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption
  • Anti-corruption commission
• Criminal Investigation Department
  • Police investigation unit
• Financial Crimes Investigation Division
  • Police investigation unit
• Police Illegal Assets Investigation Unit
  • Police investigation unit
• Siriliya Saviya
  • Charitable organisation
• Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP)
  • Political party

Cases and events (12)

• Gowers Corporate Services money laundering case
  • Laundering of Rs. 30 million through the company in 2013 and 2014
• Krrish deal case
  • Misappropriation of Rs. 70 million received from an Indian company for rugby development
• Malwana property case
  • Misappropriating government funds to buy land in Malwana
• MiG aircraft procurement inquiry
  • Embezzlement of public funds, put at US$7.833 million, and money laundering over the 2006 purchase of four MiG-27 aircraft for the Air Force
• Navy recruitment corruption case
  • That Yoshitha Rajapaksa was recruited to the Navy in 2006 without the required qualifications and trained in Britain at state expense
• Presidential election, 21 September 2024
• Presidents' Entitlements (Repeal) Act, September 2025
• Ratmalana land money laundering case
  • Money laundering concerning a Rs. 34 million property in Ratmalana
• SriLankan Airlines Airbus purchase inquiry
  • Alleged bribes linked to the airline’s 2013 purchase of Airbus aircraft
• Supreme Court ruling on the economic crisis, November 2023
• Tourism Promotion Bureau funds inquiry
  • According to the CID, Rs. 7.8 million allocated to the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau in 2014 was not used for tourism promotion but to buy 12,000 T-shirts for the Uva Provincial Council election campaign, causing a loss to the government
• Yoshitha Rajapaksa money laundering trial, Colombo High Court

Documents and records (3)

• 'Siriliya' bank account
  • Joint account at a state bank
• List of 50 cases tabled in Parliament, 8 October 2026
  • Ten-page document tabled by Minister Bimal Rathnayake
• Pandora Papers
  • Leaked financial documents published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists