{"id":169847,"date":"2016-11-01T13:06:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T07:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=169847"},"modified":"2016-11-01T13:06:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T07:36:48","slug":"cope-report-to-be-handed-over-to-attorney-general-for-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/cope-report-to-be-handed-over-to-attorney-general-for-action\/","title":{"rendered":"COPE Report To Be Handed Over To Attorney General For Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the backdrop of intensifying pressure against him and his party, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed Minister Lakshman Kiriella to hand over the COPE report on the Central Bank\u00a0Treasury <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Bond+scam&amp;x=11&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bond scam<\/span><\/a> to the Attorney General for action.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_167367\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Ranil-W.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-167367\" class=\"size-full wp-image-167367\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Ranil-W.jpg\" alt=\"Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Ranil-W.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Ranil-W-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-167367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kiriella, who is the Minister of Higher Education and Highwaya, is also the Leader of the House.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Kirella has confirmed that he will be handing over the COPE report to the Attorney General today.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition MPs have been calling for Wickremesinghe\u2019s resignation following the damning report by the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE), which found Wickremesinghe\u2019s associate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Arjuna+Mahendran&amp;x=11&amp;y=2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Arjuna Mahendran<\/span><\/a>, who was the 13th Governor of Central Bank, directly responsible for the Treasury Bond scam which resulted in the country losing Rs. 1.6 billion. Opposition MPs say Wickremesinghe is also equally responsible for the scam, as he tried to cover up the incident committed by Mahendran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":167367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>COPE Report To Be Handed Over To Attorney General For Action - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/cope-report-to-be-handed-over-to-attorney-general-for-action\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COPE Report To Be Handed Over To Attorney General For Action - 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