COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan police on Monday arrested a former central bank deputy governor and four board members of primary dealer Perpetual Treasuries Ltd for their suspected involvement in an alleged government bond scam in 2015.
Police arrested Paththinige Samarasiri, the former deputy governor of the central bank, Geoffrey Aloysius, the chairman of Perpetual Treasuries, and three directors "as part of ongoing investigations on the bond issue".
