Chamal, Mahinda, Basil and Gotabhaya Rajapaksa (uncles; first cousins once removed and father's paternal first cousins)
Parent(s)
George Rajapaksa (deceased) (father) Lalitha Rajapaksa (mother)
Residence
95 Horton Place, Colombo 07, Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka.
Nirupama Deepika Rajapaksa (born 13 April 1962) is a Sri Lankan politician, a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka[1] and a former deputy minister.
She herself, a SinhaleseBuddhist is married to an ethnic TamilHindu, . She is also the cousin of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
Rajapaksa is the niece of former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his siblings, the elder ones, Chamal and Jayanthi Rajapaksa as well as the younger ones, Chandra, Basil, Gotabhaya, Dudley, Preethi and Gandani Rajapaksa since her late father, George and them were first cousins (her late paternal grandfather, D. M. Rajapaksa and their late father, D. A. Rajapaksa are brothers).[2]
Career[]
She served as a deputy minister of water supply and drainage during the presidency of Mahinda Rajapaksa between 2010 and 2015.
Pandora Papers controversy[]
Her name was mentioned in the Pandora Papers which were released in October 2021.[3] It was revealed that she and her husband controlled a shell company they used to buy luxury apartments in London and Sydney, and to make investments.[4][5] Nadesan set up other shell companies and trusts in secrecy jurisdictions, and he used them with the intention to obtain lucrative consulting contracts from foreign companies doing business with the Sri Lankan government and to buy artwork.[6] Many reports related the fraudulent efforts as part of Rajapksa family’s undisclosed wealth in offshore countries.[7][8]
ICiJ reports that Rajapaksa and Nadesan declined to answer ICIJ’s questions about their trusts and companies.
