Seven million rupees had also been given to buy a vehicle.

Ironically the handouts have been channeled via a entity called the 'Ministry of Productivity Promotion.'

Sugar also is also given import protection through taxes, curtailing the trade freedoms of the poorest sections of society most.

The money has been channeled to the two firms without first going to parliament for approval using so-called contingency funds from the Treasury, a process that has evolved in Sri Lanka despite parliament being nominally in control of finances.

Sri Lanka's rulers expropriated a series of private firms including the two sugar firms, last year through a controversial law that where rulers resumed violating citizens property rights.

The law flack from critics for being flawed legislation that was ad hominem and trespassed on the separation of powers between the executive and the judiciary.

The law was passed despite a nominal constitutional guarantee against expropriation.

Expropriations and violating people's property rights originated mostly in then-East European countries like Germany which were consumed by Marxian thought, after legislating parliament emerged.

Sri Lanka started widespread expropriations after gaining self-determination from British rule in the middle of the last century, killing a newly emergent native entrepreneurs and driving out foreign citizens who had invested in the island.