He was speaking at a media briefing in Colombo today (24).

If a proper investigation is made into the purchase of four MiGs in 2006, former defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa could lose his civic rights, he said.

There is no question of buying the planes as a war was on, but they had been purchased at very much higher prices, he said.

There was no office in London to coordinate the purhcase as had been claimed, and British Virginia Islands has an office by that name, which is a paradise for cleaning black money, the minister said.