UPDATE : Undisclosed sections of bond report handed over to speaker

by Staff Writer 05-06-2018 | 11:26 AM
COLOMBO (News 1st) - Sections C350 to C360 of the bond commission report which had not been made public thus far, was handed over to the speaker of parliament by the Presidential Secretariat a short while ago. According to News 1st parliamentary correspondent Sripal Wanniarachchi, the sections of the report were handed over to Speaker Karu Jayasuriya prior to today's session of Parliament. The contents of the redacted sections are yet to be revealed, however, our correspondent did note that the Speaker is likely to make a statement about the documents at the start of today's parliamentary session. Over the past few weeks, politicians and civil society activists have been clamouring for the release of several redacted documents of the bond commission report believing them to contain details of individuals including politicians who had accepted money from either Arjun Aloysius, Perpetual Treasuries or companies connected to the Perpetual group. A spotlight was shone on the issue when MP Dayasiri Jayasekara, who defected from the Government, revealed that he had received money and that there were 118 others who had also accepted money from the alleged perpetrators of the bond scam.