7 January 2020 04:41 pm
CB bond scam -- Table forensic audit report: Opposition
Several members of the Opposition today requested the Speaker to table in Parliament the report of the forensic audit on the Central Bank bond scam despite the advise given by the Attorney General to the contrary.
JVP MP Bimal Ratnayake said there were enough precedents where Parliament had made its own decisions despite the directives given by the Judiciary. He said the legislature has the right to make its own decision on the forensic audit.
“Do not betray the supremacy of the House to the Attorney General,” he told the Speaker.
UNP MP Lakshman Kiriella said it was important for the report to be presented in Parliament especially in a situation where the forensic report had revealed that bonds worth Rs.6,600 billion has been issued from 2002 to 2005 while bonds worth Rs.10 billion were issued in 2015.
“One could imagine the loss which the country suffered as a result of the scrupulous bond issues worth Rs 6,600 billion,” he said.
MP Ajith P Perera it was vital for the parliamentary Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE), which became defunct after the prolongation of Parliament, to be reappointed so that it could discuss the report. (By Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana)