A subsidiary of Asia Worldwide Consolidated is claimed to have tried to enter the media area through a satellite tv for pc TV Channel.
Asia Worldwide Consolidated owns the well-known plantation firm Asia Plantation & Export (Pvt.) Ltd. working in Horana, with Deshamanya Dr. Asanka Dissanayake functioning as their Chairman and Managing Director.
This marks yet one more occasion the place plantation firms later revealed as pyramid schemers are trying to enterprise into the media sector by establishing TV channels.
The corporate in query has tried to perform the PEO TV channel – “AKSHARAYA TV”, as “Asia TV”. The AKSHARAYA TV Channel was beforehand operated by Pragathi Dakshatra from the Malabe space.
Nonetheless, their plans for ‘Asia TV’ have stalled after the Ministry of Media had determined to not grant approval for the channel, studies say.
Upon inquiring from the Ministry on this regard, ‘Sri Lanka Mirror’ learns that the approval was denied after Defence authorities had denied to grant the mandatory safety clearance.
New undertaking additionally denied approval
After the safety clearance denial, it’s reported that Dissanayake had tried to hunt the Media Ministry approval once more after beginning a contemporary firm known as Asia Cinema Academy (Pvt.) Ltd. The undertaking was in collaboration with Charith Abeysinghe, who’s at present in remand custody on the suspicion of soliciting bribes from the well-known underworld determine – ‘Harak Kata’.
Approval for this too, has reportedly been rejected.
Dissanayake had began his profession as an insurance coverage agent at Ceylinco Life and later labored as an insurance coverage agent at Union Assurance earlier than turning into a plantation funding promoter in establishments reminiscent of Sadaharitha Plantation, Ceylon Evergreen Plantation, Energy Arms Plantation and Alaka Mandawa Plantation, which had been later deemed as giants in pyramid plantation investments within the nation.
Such operations have been deemed unlawful by the Central Financial institution of Sri Lanka (CBSL).
In the meantime, it’s also learnt that the CBSL has initiated an investigation on ‘Asia Plantation’ as effectively.
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