The panel of senior attorneys appointed by the Attorney General to assist the Presidential Commission investigating the controversial Central Bank bond issue is now gearing up for its duties by engaging in a study of the COPE report and the Attorney General’s report received by the Attorney General’s Department.Attorney General Jayantha Jayasuriya PC said he would assign this panel comprising experts in several legal fields to the commission the moment he received an intimation from it.Meanwhile, Secretary to the Presidential Commission attorney Sumathipala Udugamasuriya said a newspaper advertisement would be published in due course to create public awareness about the Commission because it was a primary need. Thereafter, the Commission would systematically attend to its work. The public would also be given an opportunity to give evidence before the Commission, he said.
A source attached to the Commission said reports regarding this issue ran into thousands of pages and they had to be studied with great attention and care.A decision regarding the hearing of public evidence would be taken thereafter and whether investigations would be done in public or confidentially depended on the discretion of the Commission.The Presidential Commission officially started work at its premises in the Justice Ministry building in Hulftsdorp, Colombo on February 6.
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