Sri Lankan president appoints governor criticised over ‘bond scam’

New governor was accused of negligence by judicial inquiry over conduct in financial wrongdoing

Central Bank of Sri Lanka
Central Bank of Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka’s president has appointed an official previously accused of negligence by a judicial inquiry to lead the central bank, after the ex-governor resigned amid worsening crisis.

Gotabaya Rajapaksa asked former senior deputy governor P Nandalal Weerasinghe to head the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL). Weerasinghe was criticised for his conduct – but not found to have committed crimes – by a judicial inquiry into insider dealing at the central bank under a former governor.

Weerasinghe told

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