Government backbench MPs demand an investigation against Cabral

Sep 26, 2016

The backbench members of parliament of the ruling government have requested the Prime Minister to probe into the alleged high magnitude financial transactions that had taken during the tenure of the then governor of the Central bank of Sri Lanka Ajit Nivard Cabraal. during the Mahinda Rajapaksa government.

This request has been made by the backbench members of parliament of the United National Party. Ajit Nivard Cabraal during the period 2006 to 2015 for nearly 10 years had been assigned as the Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.

During his tenure there had been 13 large scale financial transactions had taken place with his intervention.The backbench members had urged the Prime Minister in writing to commence discreet investigations into them.A detailed letter in this regard had been handed over to the Prime Minister yesterday.