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| Sunday, 16 March 2003 |
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Elusive Pramuka chief to be extradited? by JAYAMPATHY JAYASINGHE The CID is likely to move for an arrest warrant on former Pramuka Bank chief, Rohan Perera if he does not appear before the Maligakanda Magistrate on March 28, when the case filed by the CID is taken up for hearing, CID sources told the Sunday Observer. According to sources the whereabouts of Rohan Perera is still not known although he is presumed to be in London and it was very unlikely that he would appear before the Maligakanda Magistrate to face charges of fraud. In such an event an extradition procedure would be instituted in court to bring him to Sri Lanka. The statements of the two confidential women secretaries of Rohan Perera were recorded last week by the CID sleuths with regard to destroying and shredding valuable documents pertaining to large amounts of foreign exchange being siphoned out of the country, on the personal instruction of the former Pramuka chief. The statements of the accountant attached to the Public Trustee Department and the head of the Hambantota Women's Development Federation were also recorded in respect of deposits made to Pramuka Bank's Golden Certificates scheme. Millions of rupees belonging to charities of several Buddhist temples and other places of worship have been deposited at the Pramuka Bank, by officials of the Public Trustee Department, sources said. Statements of several other heads of department are to be recorded in due course with regard to deposits made at the Pramuka Bank under the "Gold Certificate" scheme. A large number of depositors are in a quandary as they are unable to withdraw their deposits due to the sealing of the Pramuka Bank by the Central Bank authorities. |
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