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Satellite project: Samarasinghe disputes PM's response, but statement that SL suffered no loss goes unchallenged
The Island
|August 09, 2025
Minister Wasantha Samarasinghe yesterday told Parliament that the Board of Investments (BOI) had given the wrong statistics to Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya over a satellite launch and revenue from SupremeSAT Ltd.
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Claiming that SupremeSAT had generated only Rs. 342 million, the Minister said SupremeSAT had generated income as a company and not from the satellite.
However, he did not say that the government of Sri Lanka had spent USD $ 320 million on the satellite project, a claim that the NPP made during its election campaigns.
Minister Wasantha Samarasinghe further stated that several discrepancies had been found regarding the Supreme SAT satellite project.
He said that as per current data, Supreme SAT Pvt. Ltd. had signed an agreement with the BOI in May 2012 to establish a satellite system and provide telecommunication services, and the project had been launched in November of the same year.
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