{"id":71875,"date":"2017-11-22T13:29:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T19:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=71875"},"modified":"2017-11-21T16:49:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T23:49:43","slug":"bond-scam-tip-of-the-economic-terrorism-iceberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/11\/22\/bond-scam-tip-of-the-economic-terrorism-iceberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Bond Scam: Tip of the Economic Terrorism Iceberg?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>\u00a0Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>On January 31, 1996 Tamil terrorists attacked the Central Bank building causing extensive damage and killing over 70 civilians. However, if the 30 year fradlently issued bonds are allowed to continue paying interest, it will cost far more than the damage caused by Tamil terrorists 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The bond scam is developing into another war fought in a judicial manner between the Sri Lankan side and a side dominated by Tamils colluding together to save alleged fraudsters. Not many Tamils (or none at all) are on the Sri Lankan side against alleged fraudsters. Actors remotely and directly involved also suggest a connection to the 2013 Singapore Principles crowd that pushed the Tamil agenda within the Yamapalanaya clique.<\/p>\n<p>Allegedly at the centre of the bond fraud there is Arjun Mahendran (former Central Bank governor who is also a Tamil illegal immigrant to Sri Lanka as he has no Sri Lankan citizenship), his son in law Arjuna Aloysius, Pathumanapan (former senior Assistant Director of the Communications Department of the Central Bank) and his brother, Indrajith Coomaraswamy (current Central Bank governor who didn\u2019t initiate an internal investigation to the bond fraud before his time) and Sumanthiran (Tamil National Alliance MP and counsel of Pathumanapan). Though not directly involved, Paskeralingam is another Tamil who is holding a senior position in managing the nation\u2019s finances. Mangala Samaraweera (not a Tamil but harbours strong pro-Tamil political views) is the finance minister who was also a participant at the Singapore Principles conspiracy in 2013. Former finance minister (under whose supervision was the Central Bank when the fraud occurred) is not too far behind.<\/p>\n<p>TNA colluding with Mangala and UNP on finance matters became very clear when TNA for the first time voted for the budget! The budget in turn gives super profit for key Tamil businessmen in the beer industry.<\/p>\n<p>Connecting all these dots together, there is much more to the bond fraud than meets the eye. Is it the new face of economic terrorism?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Dilrook Kannangara On January 31, 1996 Tamil terrorists attacked the Central Bank building causing extensive damage and killing over 70 civilians. However, if the 30 year fradlently issued bonds are allowed to continue paying interest, it will cost far more than the damage caused by Tamil terrorists 20 years ago. The bond scam is developing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71875","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=71875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}