AG request for Trial at Bar to try suspects accused in Bond scam

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The Attorney General has requested the Chief Justice to appoint a Trial-at-Bar to try the suspects of the Central Bank bond scam of 2016, an official from the AG office said.

The suspects- former Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayaka, former Governor of Central Bank Arjuna Mahendran, Arjun Aloysious and eight others are facing charges of financial irregularities during the bonds transactions from 2015- 2017 during which billions of state funds were amazed.

The AG had already filed indictment papers against the suspect over the bond transaction that took place on March 29, 2016.

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