More accounts, in face of denials by CJ
In the face of denials by Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake, with
regard to allegations of financial impropriety in the impeachment motion
now before the legislature, confidential sources say there are more
accounts than the 19 undeclared financial accounts referred to in the
impeachment motion.
Though it is now too late to include the details of these additional
accounts in the motion before Parliament, the fresh revelations would be
pertinent in any impeachment hearings and could give the lie to the
Chief Justice’s position that ‘there may have been some inoperative
accounts.’ In a letter sent through her lawyers, they say in the defence
of the CJ that, “Our Client has been banking exclusively with the
National Development Bank (NBD) since 2010. Our Client has declared all
operative accounts that have assets in her declaration of assets and
liabilities.
“The Bank has informed our Client that there are a few non-operative
accounts which contain zero balances.
“There may be non-operative accounts in other banks which our Client
operated prior to 30th October 1996, which our Client believes have been
closed.”
Our sources say that it seems quite astounding that the CJ did not
know of accounts in various banks, of which now it appears, there are
well more than the said twenty in the impeachment papers.
They say that a separate investigation of this well in excess of
twenty accounts and the circumstances they came into existence, is
called for. |