Details have revealed that a parliamentarian and two ministry secretaries are maintaining overseas bank accounts. It is further revealed that they have large-scale accounts in several state banks in Dubai as well.

The ministry of Finance further states that several other persons are illegally maintaining overseas bank accounts in locations such as Dubai, Ukraine and Switzerland.

It is planned to obtain the assistance of these countries for the probe.

It was recently revealed that around 100 Sri Lankans are Swiss Bank account holders. However, the accounts were said to be legal.

(Source : V FM)