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Nirupama Rajapaksa
Nirupama Rajapaksa
Deputy Minister of Water Supply & Drainage
	In office; 2010–2015
Member of Parliament; for Hambantota District
	In office; 2005–2015
Preceded by	Mahinda Rajapaksa
	In office; 1994–2000
Personal details
Born	13 April 1962 (age 62) Dominion of Ceylon
Nationality	Sri Lankan citizenship
Political party	Sri Lanka Freedom Party
Other political; affiliations	United People's Freedom Alliance
Spouse	Thirukaran Nadeshan
Relations	shyamlal Rajapaksa brother,
Parent(s)	George Rajapaksa (deceased); (father); Lalitha Rajapaksa; (mother)
Residence(s)	95 Horton Place,; Colombo 07, Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka.

Nirupama Deepika Rajapaksa (born 13 April 1962) is a Sri Lankan politician, a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka^[1] and a former deputy minister.

Biography

Rajapaksa, herself a Sinhalese Buddhist, is married to an ethnic Tamil Hindu, Thirukkumaran Nadesan.^{[citation needed]}

She is the niece of former Sri Lankan President and later Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. Her late father George and Mahinda were first cousins (her late paternal grandfather, D. M. Rajapaksa and their late father, D. A. Rajapaksa were brothers).^[2]

Career

She served as a deputy minister of water supply and drainage during the presidency of Mahinda Rajapaksa between 2010 and 2015.

Pandora Papers controversy

Her name was mentioned in the Pandora Papers which were leaked to the public in October 2021.^[3] Portions of the Papers revealed that she and her husband controlled a shell company they used to make investments and buy luxury apartments in London and Sydney.^[4]^[5] Nadesan set up other shell companies and trusts in secrecy jurisdictions, and he used them with the intention to obtain lucrative consulting contracts from foreign companies doing business with the Sri Lankan government and to buy artwork.^[6] Many reports related the fraudulent efforts as part of Rajapksa family’s undisclosed wealth in offshore countries.^[7]^[8] The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) reported that Rajapaksa and Nadesan declined to answer its questions about their trusts and companies.