{"id":185004,"date":"2017-11-30T14:26:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T08:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=185004"},"modified":"2017-11-30T23:31:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T18:01:49","slug":"bond-scam-ranil-takes-refuge-in-pre-2015-bond-issue-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/bond-scam-ranil-takes-refuge-in-pre-2015-bond-issue-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Bond Scam: Ranil Takes Refuge In Pre-2015 Bond Issue Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Ranil+Wickremesinghe\">Ranil Wickremesinghe<\/a> brushed aside involvement in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Bond+Scam\">the Central Bank Bond scam<\/a> by detailing practices of the Central Bank prior to the Government assuming power in January 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ranil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-169195\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ranil.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"341\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ranil.jpg 686w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ranil-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a>Making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/ranil-wickremesinghe-30-november-2017\/\">a special statement<\/a> in Parliament today, Wickremesinghe said there are matters that he was forced to bring to light for the first time at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry, and proceeded to highlight the financial situation of the country at the time the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government took over.<\/p>\n<p>Having detailed the nature of public debt inherited by the Yahapalana Government, Wickremesinghe pointed out that the practices that had come to become &#8216;standard&#8217; with respect to bond issues were in fact arbitrary.<\/p>\n<p>He promised that and investigation into pre January 2015 bond issues will be launched once the Commission of Inquiry concludes its work.<\/p>\n<p>To read his full statement click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/ranil-wickremesinghe-30-november-2017\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":169195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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