Ceylinco Chairman Lalith Kotelawala was taken to the Central Bank under heavy security escort to be shown the list of his assets identified and valued for disposal to repay depositors of the collapsed Golden Key Credit Card Company.He was led by prison officers to the Central Bank’s Golden Key Secretariat, where he spent time examining the list of assets earmarked to go under the hammer, sources said.He gave the go-ahead to sell his assets and settle depositors as soon as possible as "these poor people are going through agony", the sources asserted.
Karu has not taken an MP’s
duty free car
Believe it or not, not all MPs have grabbed the duty
free vehicle permits they were granted and made a tidy profit for
themselves. There was at least one exception - UNP Deputy Leader Karu
Jayasuriya.
UNP’s efforts to forge a
broad coalition run into snags
UNP efforts to form a broad coalition against President
Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government appears to have run into a storm with an
influential section of the main Opposition party openly undermining
Mangala Samaraweera...