The bond commision is now being accused of concealing information of others involved in the scam while making former Minister Ravi Karunanayake the only accused.
Executive Director of the Campaign for Free & Fair Elections, Rajith Keerthi Tennekoon has expressed his concerns on the matter in a released statement.
“It is clear that the President has simply re-disclosed the name of Karunanayake while hiding the names of many others from active politics who are involved in the issue,” he said.
According to him the bond scam cannot be an act of a single politician but have been committed with the direct and indirect help of others.
Playing without a trump card!
“President playing a game of words”
Meanwhile positing a statement regarding the report Journalist Subhash Jayawardene had said while the report has not been published yet the President has presented the public with selected information allegedly taken from the report.
“It appears that the fate of a man playing without a trump card has befallen the President as well,” he said adding that according to the statement a large fraud has not taken place on February 27, 2015, with a mere Rs. 600 Million profit was earned.
According to him, the report fails to mention how Perpetual earned the undue profit while also failing to declare it as illegal earnings. He also expressed his doubts regarding recovering the loss due to the country not having adequate laws while new laws cannot be backdated.
While the governor's fault has been identified however the legal system is set to fail as he points out as the country has no laws about insider trading. According to him, the government will have to merely admonish Mahendran as a parent does to a child who had made a mistake.
The journalist while claiming he thinks the report is a mere farce he went on to say the President has played a game of mere words with the public.
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