UNP Parliamentarian Dr. Harsha de Silva charges that monies from the Employees Provident Fund are being used for dubious trades on the stock exchange.

At a media briefing convened Friday, Dr. de Silva noted that the EPF had incurred losses through the purchase of stocks in companies with artificially inflated share prices.

To make his point, the MP cited an example of how funds had been invested in the shares of a particular company.

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