Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera is the latest to join the fray around Podujana party presidential candidate Gotabhaya Rajapaksa’s citizenship.

In a tweet the Finance Minister called for Rajapaksa’s lawyer Ali Sabry to be debarred for presenting ‘forged documents’ to mislead the public.

He was referring to a certificate purportedly from the U.S. and what is purportedly Rajapaksa’s U.S. passport that has been cancelled that Sabry used at a press conference today to prove that Rajapaksa had indeed given up his U.S. citizenship despiterepeated allegations he had not

In his tweet, he pointed out that:

1. The alleged copy of Rajapaksa’s passport said ‘CANCEL’ not ‘CANCELLED” as it should have.

2. That the certificate was written in the Sri Lankan style (d/m/y) not (m/y/d)

and that Rajapaksa’s name does not appear in the Federal Registry