Ravi Karunanayake, a key suspect in the Central Bank Bond scam case, had been missing from his home when the CID sleuths arrived to arrest him yesterday.
Colombo Fort Magistrate Ranga Dissanayake issued arrest warrants on ten suspects including Karunanayake on Friday (6) on their involvement in the scam. Delivering a lengthy order, the Magistrate on Friday said that there was sufficient evidence to file charges against the 10 suspects in connection with the case.
The Magistrate also issued summons on Perpetual Treasuries (Private) Limited (PTL).
However, when officials of the CID visited the former parliamentarian’s home in Rajamalwatte Mawatha, Battaramulla, around 7 am he was not in the premises, the Sunday Observer learns.
PTL director Muthuraja Surendran was arrested by the CID yesterday and remanded till March 18 after being produced before the Colombo Additional Magistrate Priyantha Liyanage.
Senior Deputy Solicitor General Haripriya Jayasundara told the Court last week that the AG’s Department had examined the evidence in the Report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry and reports of police investigations on a complaint lodged by former Governor of the Central Bank (CBSL) Indrajit Coomaraswamy. There was reasonable doubt that the suspects had been involved in the two bond auctions.
PTL beneficiary owner, Arjun Aloysius, PTL chief dealer, Kasun Palisena, PTL Chairman Jeffrey Joseph Aloysius, Chitta Ranjan Hulugalle, Muthuraja Surendran, Ajahn Gardiya Punchihewa, Buddika Sarathchandra and Indika Saman Kumara were named as suspects earlier on charges of conspiracy, criminal misappropriation, cheating and market manipulation. These allegations were based on what took place at the bond auctions in February and March, 2015.