“A mob lawyer is a lawyer who seeks to protect the leadership of a criminal organisation and its ongoing enterprise” (The New York Times, 1985).

While we congratulate President Ranil Wickremasinghe and the government on securing the newest IMF loan, let us not forget that it was the GR government that started the IMF process exactly one year ago.

By Mathu Mathavan

Martin Wickramasinghe wrote ‘Gamperaliya’ in 1944. In that novel, Piyal left Koggala and came to Colombo to become a successful businessman as he had nothing to do in his hometown.

By Col. (Rtd) W.M.R.Wijesundara

By Bodh Maathura

• CBSL seems to function on the personal ‘belief’ of the CBSL Governor

• CBSL continues to bury its head in the sand while the country is robbed by business elites in the export and import sector, saying corporate corruption is ‘their business’

• CBSL ignores crucial findings and recommendations of IMF, World Bank, ADB, UNCTAD and OHCHR on illicit financial outflows affecting countries like Sri Lanka

• Trade Unions demand immediate coordinated effort between CBSL, Commercial Banks and Customs to investigate the issue and repatriate illicitly transferred funds, starting from most recent transactions.

By Nipun Nupearachchi