Bond Scandal: CBSL’s officers hold unusual supreme control: Weerakumara Dissanayake

By Shehan Chamika Silva                                                      

Delivering evidence before the Commission, MP Weerakumara Dissanayake, who was a member of the two COPE committees scrutinized on bond issue, revealed to the Commission yesterday that during the COPE inquiries it was evident that the Central Bank of Sri Lanka was carrying a supreme authority and control disregarding the Auditor General and the Legislation when functioning their duties.

He said that there were instances that the officials at CBSL disobeyed the Auditor General’s directions as well as the requests made by the COPE committee.

“COPE committee had to force them some times to obtain certain information because of their reluctance of assisting the inquiry”, he said.

Mr. Dissanayake also told that he had noticed some of CBSL officials behaved suspiciously and frightfully when delivering evidence before the COPE.

“There were clear contradictions between the evidence CBSL officials gave to the first COPE committee before Mahendran was resigned and to the second COPE committee”, he said.

The Commission comprised with Supreme Court Judges Kankanithanthri T. Chitrasiri, Prasanna Sujeewa Jayawardena and former Deputy Auditor General Kandasamy Velupillai will resume the inquiry today.