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15th February 1998

"My friend Upali"

Upali was not an othordox businessman who looked after the pennies

By Upatissa Hulugalle

he anniversary of Upali Wijewardene's disappearance comes five days before his birth anniversary.

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This year it is fifteen years since he disappeared and sixty years since his birth. I was fortunate in refusing to accompany him to Malaysia, actually he wanted me to go on with him to Australia, as the bloodstock company he administered, had bought a good racehorse there which he felt had good possibilities.

After Upali's disappearance this horse Trissaro was the most outstanding horse in Australia for that year, but as it was a gelding, it had no stud value.

The Company had bought a Lear Jet which it could ill afford and I told him, if he buys this plane that he would go bankrupt, like two of his Wijewardene uncles, and though it had been about five months since the plane had been purchased, I had never been on it.

I had been a regula