{"id":41032,"date":"2015-01-27T23:18:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T05:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=41032"},"modified":"2015-01-27T16:07:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T23:07:26","slug":"this-is-an-open-letter-to-president-maithripala-sirisena-and-pm-ranil-wickremasinghe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/01\/27\/this-is-an-open-letter-to-president-maithripala-sirisena-and-pm-ranil-wickremasinghe\/","title":{"rendered":"This is an Open Letter to President Maithripala Sirisena and PM Ranil Wickremasinghe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>By\u00a0Malin<\/h2>\n<p>Before appointing Arjun Mahendran as Governor of Central Bank, were you both aware of the his connection with Raj Rajratnam?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Current CB Governor Arjun Mahendran is a childhood friend of Raj Rajaratnam as admitted by him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is evidence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.dailymirror.lk\/2005\/07\/12\/ft\/15.asp\">http:\/\/archives.dailymirror.lk\/2005\/07\/12\/ft\/15.asp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Arjun Mahendran as a top banker (now CB Governor) while commenting about Sri Lanka Stock Exchange in the year 2005 has mentioned about his childhood friend Raj Rajratnam.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Quote The basic problem with Sri Lanka is it&#8217;s an illiquid market and it&#8217;s far too small for a typical international portfolio,\u201d said Arjuna Mahendran, an economist at Credit Suisse Private Banking in Singapore and a childhood friend of Rajaratnam. <strong>Raj doesn&#8217;t want to get his clients into Sri Lanka because it&#8217;s not an easy place to buy and sell stocks quickly.\u201d\u00dc<\/strong>nquote<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Raj Rajaratnam currently is in Jail in America for insider trading.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Current Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake alleged to have received $3 million dollars (Rs. 390 million) from Raj Rajaratnam contravening exchange control regulations. The case is being heard in the Courts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A Veteran Journalist HLD Mahindapala has recently raised three salient questions in one of his articles in Colombo Telegraph;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Q6: Will there be attempts to cover-up the case?<\/p>\n<p>Q7: As some of the key departments handling this case (example: Exchange Control) come under the Finance Ministry will there be pressure brought to manipulate\/cook the evidence in courts? Remember, some of the files related to the administration of the CWE under Karunanayake went up in smoke?<\/p>\n<p>Q8: Is this going to be the first of many cases that are likely to recur in due course to undermine the independence of the judiciary?<\/p>\n<p>My question is Can the new Governor of Central Bank withdraw the case?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connection Arjun Mahendran&gt; Raj Rajaratnam&gt;Ravi Karunanayake.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over to you Mr. President and Prime Minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Malin Before appointing Arjun Mahendran as Governor of Central Bank, were you both aware of the his connection with Raj Rajratnam? &nbsp; Current CB Governor Arjun Mahendran is a childhood friend of Raj Rajaratnam as admitted by him. &nbsp; Here is evidence. http:\/\/archives.dailymirror.lk\/2005\/07\/12\/ft\/15.asp &nbsp; Arjun Mahendran as a top banker (now CB Governor) while commenting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}