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Saturday, March 7, 2020

CID Had Arrested A Director Of Perpetual Treasuries Limited Over Central Bank Bond Scam

Criminal Investigations Department

(CID) had yesterday (07)arrested one of the 09 suspects who are under arrest warrant over the Central Bank Bond Scam ,Director of Perpetual Treasuries Limited Muthurasa Surendran and produced before the Colombo Additional Magistrate.

Colombo Additional Magistrate Priyantha Liyanage had remanded the suspect until 18th of March after being produced before him.

Colombo Fort Magistrate has issued arrest warrants to arrest 09 persons over their involvment in Central Bank Bond scam including UNP MP Ravi Karunanayake, Former Central Bank Governor Arjun Mahendran and Perpetual Treasuries Limited owner Arjun Aloysius last week.

However authorities still not be able to arrest Main suspects involved in Central Bank Bond Scam in 2016 as well as Bond scams occurred before 2015 sources revealed .

Northern Italy Quarantines 16 Million People Over Corona Virus Fear

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One Was Killed And Another Injured Due To A Motorcycle Collision

A Youth Motorcyclist had been killed

and another Motorcyclist had been injured and admitted to Chilaw base Hospital for treatment last night (06) after two motorcycles they were riding in colliding with each other at Suduwella area in Madampe -Kuliyapitiya road .

The deceased was a resident of Suduwella area .

Health Ministry Decided To Quarantine All Passangers Coming From Three Corona Hit Countries At Two Centers In Batticaloa

Ministry of Health has decided to use

the controversial private University established by Former Eastern Province Governor M.L.A.M. Hisbulla at Batticaloa and rehabilitation Treatment center at Kandkadu area in Sungavil ,Polonnaruwa District to quarantine all the Passangers arriving in from corona Virus hit Italy ,Iran and south Korea for 14 days to check whether they are infected with Corona Virus(Covid-19).

Director General of Health Services Dr.Anil Jasinghe had informed on this through a letter sent to the owners of Batticaloa private University authorities it has been reported .

Earlier Leprosy Hospital at Handala, Wattala had been allocated for quarantine process ,However due time the protests against the decision by the residents of the area hampered this effort.