{"id":42544,"date":"2015-03-22T23:19:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T05:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=42544"},"modified":"2015-03-22T14:53:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T21:53:39","slug":"is-arjuna-mahendran-chief-of-central-bank-of-sri-lanka-a-citizen-of-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/03\/22\/is-arjuna-mahendran-chief-of-central-bank-of-sri-lanka-a-citizen-of-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"IS ARJUNA MAHENDRAN , CHIEF OF CENTRAL BANK OF SRI LANKA , A CITIZEN OF SINGAPORE?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Ranjith Soysa<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Arjuna Mahendran was a citizen of Singapore when he was appointed as the Governor of Sri Lanka&#8217;s Central Bank.\u00a0 Recently a<br \/>\nalleged mega fraud took place at the Sri Lanka&#8217;s Central Bank in regard to\u00a0 issue of treasury bonds including\u00a0 allegation of insider trading.<br \/>\nAdding insult to the injury it was revealed that the bond issue had a connection to Arjuna Mahendran&#8217;s nephew questioning whether he was privy to the confidential information regarding this mega fraud running into billions of rupees.<\/p>\n<p>At present, Arjuna Mahendran is on leave while the investigations in the fraud has commenced.\u00a0 Meantime, the Government sources have revealed that Arjuana<br \/>\nMahendren has been granted dual citizenship in Sri Lanka. But, according to the Wikipedia , a Singapore citizen cannot be a citizen of another country while holding\u00a0citizenship of Singapore. It is absolutely interesting to ascertain whether Arjuna Mahendren is still a Singapore citizen as matters pertaining to this individual are\u00a0becoming curiouser and curiouser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ranjith Soysa Arjuna Mahendran was a citizen of Singapore when he was appointed as the Governor of Sri Lanka&#8217;s Central Bank.\u00a0 Recently a alleged mega fraud took place at the Sri Lanka&#8217;s Central Bank in regard to\u00a0 issue of treasury bonds including\u00a0 allegation of insider trading. Adding insult to the injury it was revealed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42544","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=42544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}