‘Charlie’ & ‘Little Johnnie’ revealed
by‘Charlie’ who had assisted Perpetual Treasuries Lt. (PTL) to get information regarding treasury bonds was paid Rs. 97 million as bribes by PTL says its Chief Dealer Nuwan Salgado. He revealed this before the Presidential Commission on Treasury Bond scam yesterday (12th).
Mr. Nuwan Salgado produced a document which had been prepared on instructions from the CEO of PTL Kasun Palisena. The document describes how money was paid to different people through other companies attached to PTL.
Accordingly, it was revealed that ‘informants’ coded as ‘Charlie’, ‘Tango’ and ‘Car’ were paid through these companies. The dealer of EPF connected to PTL had been code-named “Charlie” and he had been paid since 2014. It was revealed that the person code-named Charlie is one Udayasheelan who had worked in EPF from 2014 to 2015 on behalf of PTL.
The person codenamed ‘Charlie’ who had worked for EPF from September 2014 until 2017 has been revealed as one Indika Saman Kumara.
However, Nuwan Salgado has said he did not know who is codenamed as ‘Tango’ and ‘Car’.
Nuwan Salgado also revealed that code name ‘Little Jhonnie’ had been used for Kavin Karunamoorthy who worked in EPF and DFCC bank on behalf of PTL.
Another code name ‘Wolverine’ was revealed yesterday and Nuwan Salgado revealed that the code-named was used for Nawin Anuradha who was the primary contact person for National Savings Bank.
The witness admitted that PTL allocating payments to their informants continued in 2015 and thereafter as well.
Nuwan Salgado will continue to give evidence today and Rathnaweera, another dealer, is to be questioned today.
