Perpetual Chief Dealer Nuwan Salgadu to be Arrested For a Criminal Offence
Perpetual Treasuries has submitted its original unaltered voice recordings to the Bond Commission yesterday.
Testifying before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI), Sachith Devathantri, the IT executive of Perpetual Treasuries Ltd yesterday admitted, that he had deleted several phone recordings from its data on the instructions of the Chief Dealer of PTL, Nuwan Salgado on July 5, 2017. Chief dealer Nuwan Salgadu had met him at the server room of PTL’s new office on 5th and shown him a few notes containing 15- 16 serial numbers and dates of several phone conversations which had to been deleted. Devathantri said, he had deleted the requested phone recordings from the data base of the main computer and replaced them with the internal voice recordings .
Followed by this revealing, the Attorney General’s Department informed the Bond Commission yesterday, that action would be taken to have Perpetual Treasuries Chief dealer Nuwan Salgadu arrested for a criminal offence, as he allegedly submitted voice recordings that had been tampered with.
Subsequently, Nuwan Salgadu was summoned by the CID to record a statement yesterday, but he had not turned up at the CID office yesterday.
