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Is LTTE toying with bourse in Colombo? |
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Monday, 29 October 2007 |
COLOMBO: The roller coaster ride of the pivotal Colombo stock exchange despite the overwhelming success of the government’s $500 million sovereign bond has raised fears of a possible manipulation of the bourse by the LTTE.
In the backdrop of the Sri lankan Central Bank warning that a person failing to report a suspicious financial transaction could face a fine of up to one million Sri Lankan Rupees, a former Secretariat for Coordinating Peace Process (SCOPP) official has said the possible participation of the LTTE in the Colombo Stock Exchange.
The Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) is the only stock exchange licensed by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka. Shanaka Jayasekera, a researcher of the Centre for Policy, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism of Macquarie University, Australia, has alleged that it was revealed by the SCOPP of the "possible participation of the LTTE in the CSE".
In his research paper, the expert said that with LTTE's main supply and procurement lines disrupted by the Sri Lankan Navy with its 10th - floating ware house - ship sunk south east off Dondra Head recently, the LTTE were being pushed to find new avenues of raising finances to continue their arms conflict.
The Times of India
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