Sri Lanka, June 16 -- Free Lawyers Association, in letters addressed to President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and Speaker Jagath Wickramaratne had suggested setting up a select committee to probe the $ 2.5 million heist and other scams involved with the treasury.

The letter, signed by joint conveners of Free Lawyers Maithri Gunaratne and Athula de Silva had requested them to appoint a select committee to probe the heists and come up with recommendations to prevent such incidents in the future.

In their letter, the Free Lawyers have revealed that the $ 2.5 million has actually gone into an account held by Mish Global LLC at TD Bank USA. The heist was revealed when the emails which involves the transaction bounced back.

"The amount involve...