Attorney General Daapula De Livera has directed Acting IGP Chandana Wicremaratne to obtain warrants and arrest former Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayaka, former Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran, Perpetual Treasuries owner Arjuna Aloysius, Perpetual Treasuries CEO Kasun Palisena and several others over the bond scam.

They will be arrested on charges of conspiracy, criminal misappropriation, cheating, market manipulation in respect of the bond auctions in March 2016.

Mahendran, however, is currently in Singapore and measures are underway to get him extradited.