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Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe

Politician

Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe				[sources]
Alias	Wijayedasa Rajapaksa · Wijeyadasa Rajapakse · விஜயதாச ராஜபக்ச				[sources]
Birth date	1959-03-16				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Sri Lanka				[sources]
Country	Sri Lanka				[sources]
Citizenship	Sri Lanka				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
E-Mail	rajapakshe_w@parliament.lk				[sources]
Political association	Sri Lanka Freedom Party · United National Party				[sources]
Website	wijeyadasarajapakshe.lk				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q7999787				[sources]
Position	Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka (2004-2010) · Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka (2015-) · Minister of Buddhasasana, Religious & Cultural Affairs (2015-2017) · Minister of Justice (2015-2017) · Minister of Justice (2022-) · 1 more...				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Sri Lankan lawyer and politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-10-01

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Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,728

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,411

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,936

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,304

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata355,710

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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