Omalpe Sobhitha Thera files FR petition

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Ven. Dr. Omalpe Sobhitha Thera has filed a Fundamental Rights petition in Supreme Court seeking an order staying the purported award made to a company incorporated in United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the procurement of 4.5 million MTs of coal to the Lakvijaya Power Plant.

The petitioner is challenging the decision of the Special Standing Cabinet Appointed Procurement Committee to award the coal tender to the Black Sand Commodities Company and subsequent approval issued by the Cabinet of Ministers.

Sobhitha Thera maintained that the price per MT ton of coal for which the tender has been awarded to the Black Sand Commodities Company, is exorbitantly high, vis-à-vis the current Russian prices, thus, giving and affording, an unjustifiably and unfathomable and indeed, unconscionable profit margin to the above company.

The Petitioner states that Black Sand Commodities Company is not registered with the Lanka Coal Company (Pvt) Ltd. as a supplier of coal.

The petitioner further stated that, the tender in question is for the procurement of 4.5 million MTs of coal, to be supplied during the span of three years, commencing from October 2022 to April 2025.

Sobhitha Thera said Black Sand Commodities Company had been selected to supply coal at a FOB base rate of USD 295.22 per ton, which is clearly well above the market rates that other countries have imported coal under Russian prices, in the month of July 2022. Based on the above prices, there is a difference of approximately USD 115 to USD155 per ton of coal.

The Supreme Court has fixed this matter to be taken up for support on October 25. (Lakmal Sooriyagoda)

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Comments - 8

No more tax man Wednesday, 07 September 2022 05:45 PM

Corruption is there until they are under government. so privatize these. We cannot bear any more taxes

Punchi Wednesday, 07 September 2022 06:07 PM

Today’s price of Australian coal per ton is $159. IMF please take note the thief’s are still operating

Perera Wednesday, 07 September 2022 06:18 PM

Make all tenders fully transparent to the public.

Chris Thursday, 08 September 2022 11:30 AM

Privatisation need of the hour

Aquarius Thursday, 08 September 2022 12:25 PM

This government has started to side-step official tender procedures to open the doors to obvious corruption. Every purchase involving the government is a scam and someone is pocketing millions of dollars of public money. Those responsible for the many exposed corrupt deals are still walking free to carry on their activities. How do you expect the country to recover?

Man Thursday, 08 September 2022 01:15 PM

Well done, Honourable monk! Highly appreciate for your actions, in humanity, so far.

Tryne shamin Friday, 09 September 2022 08:23 AM

Whatever the colour of the ruling party, some of them still keep on doing it. Need transparency and auditing of all transactions.

SK Kumara Wednesday, 28 December 2022 07:58 PM

4.5m MT of coal @295$ tally to 1.3275B dollars. The facts: for this much money we can buy 3 brand new 300Mw LPG gas power plants and commission them in 2 years, still have leftover funds to operate them for over 128 days. Corruption to unimaginable levels. We need to beat these parasites up and chase them out of power.

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