Senior Additional Solicitor General Jayantha Jayasuriya took oaths as the Attorney General before the President a short while ago, the President’s Media Unit said.
The Constitutional Council yesterday recommended Senior Additional Solicitor General Jayantha Jayasuriya to the post of new Attorney General which has been left vacant following the retirement of Attorney General Yuwanjana Wanasundara last month.
Jayantha Jayasuriya PC joined the Attorney-General's Department in November 1983. He was sppointed as the Additional Solicitor-General in 2011. He succeeds Yuvanjana Wijayatilake P.C who retired as AG on January 10. Under the 19th Amendment, the President makes the appointment subject to the approval of the Constitutional Council.
Former Chairman of SriLankan Airlines, Nishantha Wickramasinghe, arrested on allegation of corruption by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has been remanded until July 1 by the Colombo Magistrate court.
Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Stabilization and NPP National List MP Harshana Suriyapperuma who is tipped to be named the next Finance Ministry Secretary resigned from Parliament today.
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