Chairman of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) today tabled in Parliament the final report of the Central Bank (CB) Treasury Bonds probe which concluded that former Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran was directly responsible for the questionable bond transaction and recommended that legal action be taken against him and other CB officials involved in it.
In his address to Parliament, Mr. Handunnetti said that while all members agreed to the 15 recommendations of the report, there was a dissenting opinion in the report.
He said that out of the 26 members in COPE, 16 members endorsed the report without footnotes, whereas 9 members endorsed it with footnotes.
The 16 members who endorsed it without footnotes include JVP MPs Sunil Handunnetti, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Bimal Ratnayake, Dr Nalinda Jayatissa, UPFA MPs Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, Dayasiri Jayasekara, Lakshman Seneviratne, Lasantha Alagiyawanna, Chandrasiri Gajadheera, Mahindananda Aluthgamage, Weerakumara Dissanayake, UNP MP Rauf Hakeem, and TNA MPs S Sritharan, M A Sumanthiran, Gnanamuthu Srineshan and Mavai Senathirajah.
The 9 members who endorsed it with footnotes include Dr Harsha de Silva, Ajith P Perera, Sujeewa Senasinghe, Hector Appuhamy, Ravindra Samaraweera, Wasantha Aluvihare, Ashok Abeysinghe, Abdullah Maharoof and Hashanah Rajakaruna. UNP MP Ranjan Ramanayake had not taken either of side. (CK)
Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala told Parliament today that the suspect in the rape of a lady doctor at the Anuradhapura teaching hospital has been identified as an army deserter and he will be apprehended shortly.
Police have arrested the suspect connected to the sexual assault on a female doctor at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital today morning in Galnewa.
The Dutch Public Prosecutor suspects two companies of paying bribes in the construction of hospitals in Sri Lanka, according to an investigation by FD, the Dutch financial newspaper.
The Minister of Power, Kumara Jayakody, stated that in the future, internationally funded projects, such as power projects, will only be carried out through government-to-government (G2G) agreements and competitive procurement.
The Government today tabled in the House the Report of the Commission to Inquiry into the Establishment and Maintenance of Unlawful Places of Detention and Torture Chambers in the Batalanda Housing Scheme.
Israel, a major player in the global diamond and jewellery trade, has invited Sri Lankan gem and jewellery businessmen and designers to collaborate with Israeli diamond traders.
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