The forensic audit reports of the bond scam are to be finalized after obtaining statements from Central Bank senior officials involved in administrative procedures.
The Central Bank's conduct of monetary policy was questionable during the present and previous regimes under a set of senior officials like P .Samarasiri, Nandalal Weerasinghe and Ananda Silva whose names were mentioned in the Presidential Commission which had examined the bond issue.
In a motion submitted to the Colombo Magistrate's Court several months ago, the names of Senior Deputy Governor of the Central Bank, Nandalal Weerasinghe and retired Deputy Governor Ananda Silva were transpired due to their involvement in the Central Bank bond transactions.
However, forensic audit reports of the bond scam are yet to be finalised and the first report is expected only by the end of September.
Two other reports are expected in October and the final two are to be finalised in November.
During the period of of September and November this year all audit reports are to be finalized.
The Presidential Commission inquiring into the bond scam recommended a forensic audit to be carried out on the bond scam transactions.
Thereafter, international audit firms KPMG and BDO were selected to conduct the forensic audits.
The two interim reports are based on the data that the teams have been looking at and they need to look more deeply into the transactions and even interview some CB officials before finalizing it.
The audit report will mainly look into the financial dues, assets and transactions that have taken place.
The Attorney General has indicted 10 accused of the bond scam including the former Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran, officials of Perpetual Treasuries and several other officials of the Central Bank.
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