In 2021 the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) released the Pandora Papers which included Nirupama Rajapaksa who had used shell companies and trusts in offshore jurisdictions to secretly stash their wealth around the world. In 2022 as protests began growing in Sri Lanka Jaliya Chitran Wickramasuriya, cousin of the Rajapaksa brothers plead guilty in US District Court for defrauding $332,027 from the Sri Lankan government during the purchase of a new embassy building in 2013.[22][23] Government supporters and allies also began to blame the economic crisis on Basil Rajapaksa who gained a reputation as "Mr. Ten Percent" due to his alleged commission from government contracts,[24][5] while Udaya Gammanpila, the leader of government-aligned Pivithuru Hela Urumaya, claimed that they have no intention of re-electing a Rajapaksa describing it as the end of nepotism that plagued Sri Lankan politics.[26]