China’s economic presence in SL needs to be reduced to eliminate corruption

23 January 2015 06:36 pm Views - 6680

The newly appointed Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake recently revealed that steps have been taken to transfer funds amounting to close to eight billion rupees in an account allegedly maintained by the Former Defense Secretary at the Taprobane Branch of Bank of Ceylon, to the Treasury.

In an interview with Daily Mirror, Minister Karunanayake spoke on this issue as well as other corruption charges against the previous regime, the current state of the Treasury and the new regime’s financial plan for the future.