Sri Lanka, June 16 -- A majority of government MPs threatened to remove Committee on Public Finance (COPF) Chairman Harsha de Silva from his post if video footage related to investigations into hackers operating within the committee released to the media, former Parliamentarian Ajith P. Perera says.

The former MP stated this while replying to a question raised by journalists on the "Hiru Salakuna" political programme held yesterday (15) regarding the non-release of the COPF discussion video footage to the media.

The former MP revealed during the programme that the release of video footage of the last two meetings of the parliamentary COPF, where the Treasury Secretary and the Central Bank Governor summoned to discuss financial frauds an...