FactCheck: Recent submissions
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Gamini Lokuge: On the strength of EPF
(www.factcheck.lk, 4/22/2021)FALSE: The Employees Provident Fund has become the strongest fund in Asia today. - Gamini Lokuge, Parliament Hansard, 9 February 2021 -
Bandula Gunawardana: Sathosa Losses
(www.factcheck.lk, 4/8/2021)PARTLY TRUE: [Sathosa] was an institution that did not incur losses before 2015. Sathosa has lost 20 billion rupees during the last five years (2015 – 2019). - Bandula Gunawardana, Daily News, 10 March 2021 -
Patali Champika Ranawaka: Sugar and Fats Imports
(www.factcheck.lk, 4/1/2021)TRUE: Compared to 2019, sugar imports have increased by 38% and oil and fat imports have increased by 237%. - Patali Champika Ranawaka, Parliament Hansard, 11 February 2021 -
Ajith Nivard Cabraal: ISB debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/26/2021)PARTLY TRUE: As of now (February 2021), the total ISBs outstanding is USD 14 billion, which is only 16.7 percent of Sri Lanka’s total debt. None of the other creditors who hold 83.3 percent of Sri Lanka’s debt seem to show ... -
Mahinda Rajapaksa: Export Agriculture Crops
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/19/2021)TRUE: The revenue from export agricultural crops stood at Rs. 63,000 million in 2019. Within one year we have been able to increase it to Rs. 73,000 million. - Mahinda Rajapaksa, Dinamina, 3 March 2021 -
Asela Gunawardana: Community Transmission
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/12/2021)FALSE: “If it is to reach the community transmission level, the positive rate would have drastically spiraled parallel to the number of PCR tests. At present, Sri Lanka is not experiencing such a situation”. - Asela ... -
Keheliya Rambukwella: GDP growth
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/15/2020)TRUE: When President Mahinda Rajapaksa took over the country in 2005, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was USD 20 billion. In ten years, we increased the GDP to USD 80 billion. - Keheliya Rambukwella, Dinamina, 4 December 2019 -
Sajith Premadasa: Fuel price reduction
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/6/2020)PARTLY TRUE: The price of a litre of 95 octane petrol is Rs. 161 and this can be priced at Rs. 94. A litre of super diesel is sold at Rs. 132 and this price can be reduced to Rs. 77. A litre of diesel is sold at Rs. 104 ... -
Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Misinformation on disability data
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/27/2020)FALSE: In Sri Lanka, 20 percent of children are having a mental or physical disability. - Gotabaya Rajapaksa, President’s Official Twitter Page, 25 January 2020 -
Budget Check 2021
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/17/2020)For the very first time in Sri Lanka, the FactCheck team at Verité Research conducted the inaugural #BudgetCheck2021. The team carried out live fact checking on claims made by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa in his 2021 ... -
Sudath Samaraweera: Community transmission
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/11/2020)FALSE: “If positive cases are reported without the origin, then it can be identified as a community transmission. In other words, community transmission takes place when cases are reported with no connection to the existing ... -
Mahinda Rajapaksa: Office on Missing Persons Act
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/3/2020)FALSE: “In August of 2016, without even allowing for a parliamentary debate on the matter, the Yahapalana government forcibly enacted the Office on Missing Persons Act.” -Mahinda Rajapaksa, Aruna, 29 June 2020 -
Harsha De silva: Government debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/1/2020)TRUE: …the government made a hue and cry [those days] saying that the debt rose by Rs. 5,700 billion in five years, didn’t they? However, during their time, it has risen by [approximately] Rs. 1,000 billion in just four ... -
Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Postal Department
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/12/2020)TRUE: "The Postal Department is currently running at a loss of about Rs 6 billion. It generates an income of Rs 8 billion annually. The department’s expenditure runs to about Rs 14 billion on account of having overtime ... -
Ranil Wickremesinghe: Government Revenue
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/6/2020)FALSE: "When I was the Prime Minister, the government revenue was LKR 150,000 million. The revenue last month was LKR 50,000 million. LKR 90,000 million is needed to pay the salaries and pensions of the public servants." ... -
National Freedom Front: Auditor General's duties under 20A
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/22/2020)TRUE: The provision under which companies registered under the Registrar of Companies and of which the government is the majority shareholder, have been removed from the audit process of the Auditor General [in the proposed ... -
Wigneswaran: Unemployment disparity
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/31/2020)FALSE: “Unemployment in our war-affected areas have exceeded 10% while the national average proportion of unemployment is less than 6%.” - C. V. Wigneswaran, Daily FT, 12 September 2020 -
Mahinda Rajapakse: Budget Deficit
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/19/2020)FALSE: “…the budget deficit which my government brought down to 5.7 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2014, has increased to over 9.6 percent of the GDP by 2019… outstanding unpaid bills amounted to Rs. 243 billion, ... -
Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Foreign debt payment
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/26/2020)TRUE: We have to pay close to USD 400 million a month in [foreign] debt. - Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Lankadeepa, 12 October 2020 -
Mahindananda Aluthgamage: Agriculture
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/7/2020)FALSE: 40% of the population is directly employed in agriculture. - Mahindananda Aluthgamage, Mawbima, 17 August 2020