{"id":69864,"date":"2017-09-18T22:42:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T04:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=69864"},"modified":"2017-09-18T12:09:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T19:09:32","slug":"bond-scams-and-perpetual-trustees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/09\/18\/bond-scams-and-perpetual-trustees\/","title":{"rendered":"Bond scams\u00a0and Perpetual Trustees"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><b><u><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">P.A.Samaaraweera<\/span><\/u><\/b><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">The principal share holder and Director of Perpetual Trustees, Mr. Arjuna Aloysius, has decided not to give evidence before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry. The Commission of Inquiry has also declined to compel him to give evidence because the law allows him to do so. If those who are \u00a0accused can remain silent when called upon to provide evidence to Presidential Commissions then there is no purpose of appointing them as it is a waste of\u00a0time and money. In the past so many commissions had been appointed but their impact had been negligible. Some of them had been merely an eye wash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">From the &#8216;Bond Scams&#8217;, Perpetual Trustees had earned billions. And it had been reported last year, that the CEO of Perpetual Trustees, Mr. Kasun Palisena had been paid Rs 10 million as a bonus, while other employees had also been offered large bonuses.\u00a0The beginning of the bond scam started with the appointment of Mr. Mahendran, a Singaporean, as the Governor of the Central Bank.\u00a0His appointment had been made by\u00a0the Prime Minister Mr. Ranil Wickremasinghe. And\u00a0Arjuna Aloysius of Perpetual Trustees is the son-in-law of Mr. Mahendran. Therefore, the person responsible for the whole episode is Ranil Wickremasinghe.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P.A.Samaaraweera The principal share holder and Director of Perpetual Trustees, Mr. Arjuna Aloysius, has decided not to give evidence before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry. The Commission of Inquiry has also declined to compel him to give evidence because the law allows him to do so. If those who are \u00a0accused can remain silent when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drpasamaraweera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69864","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=69864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}