By Madhusha ThavapalakumarAnanda Kithsiri Seneviratne, who was serving as a Deputy Secretary to the Treasury, had been summarily transferred two weeks ago without providing reasons, The Sunday Morning Business reliably learns. He added that he was first transferred to the Ministry of Public Administration and Management and then transferred from there to the Ministry of Education. Seneviratne had served as one of the deputy secretaries to the Treasury since February 2018 when he was appointed by the previous Government. During a post-budget discussion on Wednesday (18), MP Dr. Harsha de Silva stated that a senior Treasury official had been transferred for refusing to manipulate statistics. Since January 2018, he had been working as the Director General of the Department of National Budget until he was appointed as a Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.

Source: The Nation November 21, 2020 20:26 UTC