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Mahinda Rajapaksa: economic growth
(factchecklka - Facebook, 12/10/2018)
FALSE: In the nine years I was in power, I increased the GDP per capita of this country by a multiple of three. In that period, the economic growth rate was 7.4%.
- Mahinda Rajapaksa, 25 November 2018, Derana TV
Harini Amarasuriya: Unpaid care work
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/17/2023)
TRUE: …there are a few factors that are not considered when measuring the contribution to the labour force…[a] large chunk of unremunerated work done by women is the main type of work that is not included in these statistics. ...
Udaya Gammanpila: CPC Losses
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/15/2021)
FALSE: Due to the fact that oil has continuously been purchased at high prices and sold at low prices, the accumulated loss for CEYPETCO, as at end 2020, is Rs. 331 billion - Udaya Gammanpila, Minister Gammanpila's Official ...
Ranil Wickremesinghe: Rajapaksa era exports
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/5/2019)
PARTLY TRUE: In the ten years of the Rajapaksa administration, this country’s exports fell from 30% to 18%.
- Ranil Wickremesinghe, Divaina, 12 August 2019
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." ...
Mangala Samaraweera Cigarette tax income
(factchecklka - Facebook, 10/19/2018)
BLATANTLY FALSE: A tax income of 1,800 crore (Rs. 18 billion) has been lost due to reduced cigarette sales.
- Mangala Samaraweera, 12 September 2018, Lankadeepa
MA Sumanthiran: Tamil journalists
(factchecklka - Facebook, 12/20/2018)
PARTLY TRUE: If I remember correctly, [in the past 20 years] 14 Tamil journalists have been murdered.
- MA Sumanthiran, 25 October 2018, Mawbima
Maithripala Sirisena: SOE losses
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/24/2019)
TRUE: The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) and Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) incur losses in the tens of millions [of rupees] per day.
- Maithripala Sirisena, Divaina, 4 June 2019
Kanchana Wijesekera: Forensic Audit Report
(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. ...
Mujibur Rahman: COVID-19 foreign financing
(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.
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