PERC Chief to be quizzed
Former Treasury Secretary P B Jayasundera is to be quizzed by the CID on allegations that hundreds of millions of rupees were issued to the Sri Lanka Rubber Manufacturing and Export Corporation in a questionable manner.

Dr. Jayasundera, still the chairman of the powerful Public Enterprises Reforms Commission, is to be questioned after the former chairman of the corporation, its accountant and the factory manager were remanded in connection with a massive fraud.

CID detectives said they had already recorded statements from several opposition politicians and top officials in the plantation sector. The CID probe began after it was alleged that Rs. 540 million of Rs. 941 million released to provide relief to rubber smallholders had been misapropriated during the previous government.

A special team has been appointed by the CID to investigate all bank accounts and vouchers issued for the last six years by the Corporation.

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