{"id":67663,"date":"2017-07-08T14:30:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T21:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=67663"},"modified":"2017-07-08T14:30:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T21:30:27","slug":"attorney-general-instructed-to-look-into-arjuna-aloysious-phone-call-to-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/07\/08\/attorney-general-instructed-to-look-into-arjuna-aloysious-phone-call-to-witness\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General  instructed to look into Arjuna Aloysious\u2019 phone call to witness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"news-author\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/authors\/3\/yusuf-ariff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yusuf Ariff<\/a>\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"news-content\">\n<p>The Presidential Commission probing the Central Bank treasury bond scam today instructed the Attorney General to look into legal provisions in relation to Arjuna Aloysious of Perpetual Treasuries Ltd giving a phone call to one of the witnesses in the case.<\/p>\n<p>In was recently revealed at the commission that the Pan Asia Bank had acted as an intermediate for Perpetual Treasuries Ltd and the Employees\u2019 Provident Front (EPF) for bond transaction in the market.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Benedict Dias, a deputy general manager at the bank, testifying before the commission today (7), stated that Mr Aloysious had called him via Whatsapp on June 30 asking him to visit his residence.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AG instructed to look into Arjuna Aloysious\u2019 phone call to witness (English)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GHAUC6TDeAg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Yusuf Ariff\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana The Presidential Commission probing the Central Bank treasury bond scam today instructed the Attorney General to look into legal provisions in relation to Arjuna Aloysious of Perpetual Treasuries Ltd giving a phone call to one of the witnesses in the case. In was recently revealed at the commission that the Pan Asia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67663","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=67663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}