Bond scam: Shocked banker asks for poison

A Bank of Ceylon top official who “expressed shock at high rates at which bids had been accepted at Treasury Bond auction had told a Central Bank colleague it was “not ethical” and asked her to send him a “vial of poison.”

The report of the Commission of Inquiry into the bond scam identifies the official as J.K.D. Dharmapala, Chief Manager of the Risk Management Department of the Bank of Ceylon.

He has been speaking on the telephone to Steffie Fernando of the Public Debt Department of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL).