In a startling revelation, the Attorney General’s Department today informed the Bond Commission that it had extracted 8600 pages of data from Perpetual Treasuries head Arjuna Aloysius’ mobile phone.

The AG’s Department said several text messages in the database refers to two individuals called ‘RK’ and ‘PM’

RK, incidentally, are also the initials of Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake.

According to the AG's Department's lawyers, some of the text messages indicated that Aloysius had funded the Sunday Leader newspaper, in the recent past. 

When questioned about the development, Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake, who appeared before the Commission this morning said, he had no knowledge of Aloysius’ text messages referring to ‘Ravi K’

In his statement, the Foreign Minister told the Bond Commission that he knew Arjuna Aloyius as a family friend for long time, but they had no business or official connection