Sri Lanka, June 30 -- New Democratic Front (NDF) MP who is a member of Committee on Finance (COPF) Ravi Karunanayake in a letter addressed to the Chairman of COPF Harsha de Silva urged him to hold the Central Bank Supervision Unit and its Financial Investigation Unit answerable for what he called lethargic and oversight blindness of the institution with regard to the billion dollar illegal transfer of funds which was revealed by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake last week.

Mr Karunanayake had also requested the CoPF chief to ask 13 commercial banks to justify their alleged internal control failures and address the movement of complicit bank managers.

He has asked the CoPF Chief to get the Controller General of Imports and Exports and ...