{"id":144941,"date":"2015-05-20T22:17:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T16:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=144941"},"modified":"2015-06-03T04:33:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T23:03:09","slug":"full-text-of-ranils-bond-committee-report-ive-nothing-to-do-with-committee-findings-dr-waw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/full-text-of-ranils-bond-committee-report-ive-nothing-to-do-with-committee-findings-dr-waw\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Text Of Ranil&#8217;s Bond Committee Report &#8211; I&#8217;ve Nothing To Do With Committee Findings: Dr. WAW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The three-member committee appointed by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to probe into the controversy that has emerged over the issuance of Treasury Bonds has said that the Central Bank Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Arjuna+Mahendran&amp;x=11&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Arjuna Mahendran<\/span><\/a> had no direct role in deciding to accept bids over and above the one billion rupees stipulated in the 30-year bond tender and accept up to 10 billion rupees.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_140897\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Arjuna-Mahendran.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-140897\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-140897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Arjuna-Mahendran-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"The Central Bank Governor - Arjuna Mahendran\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Arjuna-Mahendran-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Arjuna-Mahendran.jpg 535w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-140897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Central Bank Governor &#8211; Arjuna Mahendran<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Committee concluded that there was no evidence to the effect that the governor had direct participation with regard to the activities of the PDD and the Tender Board Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The three-member Committee that looked into the 30-year bond issue consisted;\u00a0Gamini Pitipana (Attorney-At-Law) \u2013 Chairman,\u00a0Mahesh Kalugampitiya (Attorney-At-Law) \u2013 Committee Member,\u00a0Chandimal Mendis (Attorney-At-Law) \u2013 Committee Member.<\/p>\n<p>The first page of the report said, &#8220;The Prime Minister who is the Minister of Policy Planning made available the service of Mr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=W.A+Wijewardena&amp;x=11&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">W.A Wijewardena<\/span><\/a> the former Deputy Governor of the CBSL. 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A Wijewardena assisted the committee in technical aspects.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked for a comment, Dr. Wijewardena said: &#8220;My role was to help the Committee understand technical matters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am not responsible for the findings of the Committee which are theirs.&#8221; Dr Wijewardena told <em>Colombo Telegraph<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full report click <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bond-Report.pdf\">here<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":140897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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