FactCheck: Recent submissions

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    • Lakshman Kiriella: Bond scandal assets freeze 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 3/11/2020)
      PARTLY TRUE: The allegation is that the UNP caused a loss of LKR 10 billion through bonds. The country has not experienced a loss because the CBSL froze/impounded LKR 12 billion from Perpetual Treasuries. However, the ...

    • Bandula Gunawardana: Central Bank Liability 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 6/25/2020)
      TRUE: When money is deposited in a financial institution, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka is only responsible for up to LKR 600,000. - Bandula Gunawardana, Department of Government Information Facebook Page, 4 June 2020

    • Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Child disability statistics 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 2/27/2020)
      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

    • Dinesh Gunawardena: Foreign Remittances 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 6/18/2020)
      TRUE: In 2018 the income the country received from overseas workers was about USD 7 billion. That was 7.9% of that year’s GDP. - Dinesh Gunawardena, Divaina, 9 June 2020

    • Mujibur Rahman: COVID-19 foreign financing 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 6/11/2020)
      PARTLY TRUE: We know that our country has received a large amount of money from abroad to control [the COVID-19 pandemic] ... In general, when everything is added up, [Sri Lanka] has received about LKR 200,000 million. - ...

    • Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi: Covid-19 community transmission 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 6/4/2020)
      TRUE: …No [COVID-19] patients were reported from the community in the period of close to three weeks that elapsed, because the disease did not spread amongst the community. - Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi, Ada Derana, 20 May 2020

    • Rajitha Senaratne: COVID-19 testing statistics 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 5/20/2020)
      PARTLY TRUE: [The number in Sri Lanka considered to have contracted Covid-19] is determined only by the number of people that have been tested for the virus. Symptoms of Covid-19 appear only in 15% [of the infected]. Others ...

    • Udaya Gammanpila: Presidential Immunity 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 5/13/2020)
      FALSE: “…Even if [former President Sirisena] has committed a crime, he cannot be prosecuted as he enjoys immunity in terms of Article 35(1) of the Constitution… No law has stripped Presidential immunity against criminal ...

    • Sajith Premadasa: Fuel pricing 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 5/6/2020)
      PARTLY TRUE: A litre of diesel is sold at Rs. 104 and this can be reduced to Rs. 61. A litre of 92 octane petrol is Rs. 137; it can be priced at Rs. 80. - Sajith Premadasa, The Island, 11 March 2020

    • Sajith Premadasa: Income inequality 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 10/3/2019)
      FALSE: While the richest 20 per cent enjoy 54 per cent of the national income, the poorest 20 per cent of the country enjoys only 4 percent of it. - Sajith Premadasa, Lankadeepa, 9 July 2019

    • GMOA: COVID-19 Statistics 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 4/2/2020)
      FALSE: “We are in a worst situation compared to Italy at the end of the first 7 days (from 1st Local Case). Peak of the COVID-19 in Sri Lanka can be expected during New Year Season if we do not take more aggressive decisions ...

    • Patali Champika Ranawaka: Yahapalanaya revenue increase 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 4/29/2020)
      PARTLY TRUE: When the Yahapalana government came into power, state revenue was LKR 1.05 trillion. Our government doubled this income to LKR 2.1 trillion within 5 years. - Patali Champika Ranawaka, Lankadeepa, 6 February 2020

    • Siripala Gamlath: UNHRC Resolution 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 3/19/2020)
      FALSE: The other dangerous consequence of co-sponsoring [UNHRC Resolution 30/1] is that this country’s ‘war heroes’ can be taken before an international court at any instance. - Siripala Gamlath, Divaina, Aruna, 25 February 2020

    • Kanchana Wijesekera: Forensic Audit Report 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 3/5/2020)
      FALSE: "Around 96 percent of the Rs.10,000 million ‘loss’ highlighted by the Forensic Audit Report into Bond transactions from the period 2005-2015 actually went to several government institutions which benefitted immensely. ...

    • Eran Wickramaratne: All Borrowings Used to Repay Debt 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 8/22/2019)
      PARTLY TRUE: Total borrowings by the Government have been completely used to repay debt. - Eran Wickramaratne, Daily FT, 19 June 2019

    • Udaya Gammanpila: Prison Expenditure 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 6/27/2019)
      PARTLY TRUE: Today, most people in prisons are those imprisoned for being unable to pay fines. To maintain a prisoner, the government spends Rs. 671 per person per day. Accordingly, a person who is imprisoned for being ...

    • Mangala Samaraweera: Macroeconomic indicators 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 6/20/2019)
      PARTLY TRUE: …macroeconomic indicators showed positive trends with the country’s $7.6 billion foreign reserves, capable of covering four months of imports, the trade deficit declining to a five year low in February and Sri ...

    • Namal Rajapaksa: Education 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 9/21/2019)
      FALSE: Today 560,000 sit the Ordinary Level examination. 340,000 sit the Advanced Level examination. Around 65,000 – 100,000 pass the examination. Approximately 28,000 go to university. - Namal Rajapaksa, Mawbima, 11 July 2019

    • Dinesh Gunawardena: IDP Resettlement 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 3/25/2020)
      PARTLY TRUE: “Sri Lanka also made significant progress in the resettlement of over 440,000 IDPs … presently it has risen to 93.76%.” - Dinesh Gunawardena, Daily FT, 28 February 2020

    • Patali Champika Ranawaka: Mihin and Sri Lankan Airlines debt 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 2/6/2020)
      FALSE: Through SriLankan Airlines and Mihin Lanka, every person in the country has been made a debtor to the value of LKR 12,500. - Patali Champika Ranawaka, Divaina, 28 August 2019