{"id":55622,"date":"2016-06-16T23:03:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T05:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=55622"},"modified":"2016-06-16T03:50:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T10:50:22","slug":"bond-mahendrans-circus-of-22-foreign-junkets-at-state-expense-within-just-12-months-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/06\/16\/bond-mahendrans-circus-of-22-foreign-junkets-at-state-expense-within-just-12-months-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Bond Mahendran\u2019s \u2018circus\u2019 of 22 foreign junkets at State expense within just 12 months..! -list…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy\u00a0Lanka-e-News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

(Lanka-e-News -13.June.2016, 10.15PM) Believe it or not ! this is not a record taken out from the book of Ripleys . Rather ,this is a record breaking feat , inglorious though of Sri Lanka \u2018s Governor of Central Bank \u2018Bond \u00a0Mahendran\u2019 alias Arjun Mahendran who travelled abroad as many as 22 times at public expense just within a period of 12 months \u00a0\u2013 February 2015 to February 2016 ! based on details garnered \u00a0by \u00a0Lanka e news.<\/p>\n

Though these foreign junkets are claimed by him as official , many of them have been for his private purposes . It is on business class air tickets he has made these junkets and stayed in super luxury hotels . All these expenses of Bond Mahendran have been met out of State funds. (It is on one of these junkets he bought a dress for Rs. 1.2 million out of state funds !)<\/p>\n

On one occasion in order to portray that he was on an official tour he had taken an ordinary employee of the Central Bank on the \u00a0foreign tour . He too had been provided with a business class air ticket and super luxury hotel comforts \u2013 all at public expense !<\/p>\n

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According to Central bank rules and regulations , though an ordinary employee cannot be provided with such facilities , Bond Mahendran who went on foreign junkets as often as he changed his lankots , had not paid heed to \u00a0these rules. In addition , on some occasions , in order to cover \u00a0his foreign tour he has taken a photographer to whom the air ticket and hotel facilities were provided at state expense. But it has come to light on those occasions , the organizers of those Institutions have spent for the coverage . In this era in which taking a photograph is as simple as chewing betel, \u00a0Bond Mahendran \u00a0on the contrary taking \u00a0an individual from SL spending state funds immensely to take just a photograph when speaking at the meeting \u00a0is the joke of the century .<\/p>\n

Of course if \u2018Bond Mahendran\u2019 alias \u2018Pythiaguras\u2019 (mad mentor) is the Head of State , his taking along such individuals is understandable , but \u00a0Bond Mehendran is only a Government officer . Hence his profligacy wasting public funds recklessly at a time when SL \u2018s national income is slender , and the country is \u00a0head over heels in debt and hard put to repay, is unpardonable under any circumstances .<\/p>\n

Moreover after Bond Mahendran became the Central Bank governor he has not only lost his headquarters which has gone into hiding in his hindquarters , he has also lost his memory having forgotten his travel on land. Imitating original James Bond , this spurious \u2018Bond\u2019, for \u00a0his travel (including his family ) within the country has been using the Air Force helicopter , and it is Central bank that has defrayed the expenses. These expenses have exceeded those of even the president . Despite the fact Bond Mahendran has only two weeks left before his term ends , even then he has arranged for 8 helicopter journeys ,based on Air Force sources.<\/p>\n

Of course Bond Mahendran the Central Bank Governor is not one who carries a bundle of files under his arms and travels by a three wheeler , but going by his behavior after he became the governor it is clear he does not know \u00a0where to draw his line.<\/p>\n

The foreign junkets of Bond Mahendran for the period between February 2015 and February 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

10-21 February 2015 \u2013 America
\n07-12 March 2015 \u00a0– \u00a0America
\n27th June to 02 nd July- Singapore and Japan
\n10-16 July 2015 \u2013 New Zealand
\n20-21 August 2015 \u2013 Singapore
\n25-26 August 2015 -Singapore
\n01-05 September 2015 – Singapore and New Zealand
\n15-17 September 2015 – United Arab Emirates
\n01-04 October \u00a02015 -Singapore
\n05-06 October 2015 \u2013Maldive Islands
\n12-18 October \u2013 2015 Singapore
\n31st October to 01 st November2015 \u00a0– \u00a0Singapore
\n13-17 November 2015 \u2013 Singapore
\n21-23 November 2015 \u00a0– India
\n24-29 November 2015 \u00a0 – Philippines
\n27 \u00a0th November \u00a02015 \u00a0-Philippines and thereafter Singapore
\n08-12 December 2015 \u2013 Singapore
\n20-23 December 2015 \u2013 Saudi Arabia
\n26-28 December \u00a02015 -India
\n20-24 January 2016\u2013 Switzerland
\n05-10 February 2016 \u00a0-France
\n15-17 February 2016\u2013 China<\/p>\n

Does such a State officer who revels and rejoices in wasting public funds be given another one year extension in service ?<\/h4>\n

The related documentary evidence can be viewed by clicking below \u00a0this photograph after magnification\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Await the exposure by Lanka e news of \u00a0the Credit card waste of funds of notorious Bond Mahendran ! )\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy\u00a0Lanka-e-News (Lanka-e-News -13.June.2016, 10.15PM) Believe it or not ! this is not a record taken out from the book of Ripleys . Rather ,this is a record breaking feat , inglorious though of Sri Lanka \u2018s Governor of Central Bank \u2018Bond \u00a0Mahendran\u2019 alias Arjun Mahendran who travelled abroad as many as 22 times at public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55622","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=55622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}