{"id":77957,"date":"2018-06-01T16:43:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T23:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=77957"},"modified":"2018-06-01T16:43:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T23:43:55","slug":"the-president-queries-bank-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/06\/01\/the-president-queries-bank-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"The President queries Bank Scam."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>RANJITH SOYSA<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The President Sirisena queried whether late Ven Madoluwawe Sobhitha thero wanted the Central Bank to be robbed within the 100 Day program of Yahapalnaya Government, when he addressed the memorial meeting held recently to remember the Ven Thero.<\/p>\n<p>The country is awaiting eagerly to ascertain who ordered the robbery and who handled the looting operations and who shared the booty. The President, in his role as the great pacifier had again resorted to drawing a red herring by citing VenThero when there is sufficient evidence to identify the responsible white collar crooks.<\/p>\n<p>The scale of the robbery has left a big hole in the country\u2019s finances when she lost Rs 15 billion directly and the primary dealer the Perpetual Treasuries made a profit of Rs 40 billion in a period of six months \u2013a rate of profit being 1853%- and the said primary dealer was extended a loan of Rs 66 billion by a state institution. The story of the wounded economy should include the losses incurred by the Central Bank and the Provident Fund too. The scam was first detected in March 2015 and it has taken more than 4 years for AG\u2019s department and others to establish the facts. Ranil prophetically said in 2015 what bond? Is it James Bond!\u201d Now, the Sri Lankans too are increasingly getting used to realize that there was no bond robbery as there are no robbers. The final scenario in the Ranil\u2019s James Bond story will depict how the lotters will continue to live happily by selling a dummy to the public.<\/p>\n<p>It is up to the President who is the executive arm in the Government, to set the ball rolling by being more active while questioning and directing the AG\u2019s department and other legal institutions to file action to punish the vandals who remain in Sri Lanka and who aided and abetted to carry out this great bank robbery. If they await for the main culprit to arrive on his own to Sri Lanka to start the legal proceeding of the bank scam it will be a case of going further and fare worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RANJITH SOYSA The President Sirisena queried whether late Ven Madoluwawe Sobhitha thero wanted the Central Bank to be robbed within the 100 Day program of Yahapalnaya Government, when he addressed the memorial meeting held recently to remember the Ven Thero. The country is awaiting eagerly to ascertain who ordered the robbery and who handled the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption-and-bribery","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77957","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=77957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}