The Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) appointed to investigate the Treasury bond issue said today that any attempt to hack into former Perpetual Treasuries Director Arjun Aloysius’ phone would be considered a punishable offence.

While making the statement, the commission prohibited Aloysius and his agents from attempting to log into his apple account, which is currently being investigated by the CID. 

The remarks come after Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Yasantha Kodagoda informed the PCoI yesterday that an attempt had been made to access Aloysius’ Apple account within the preceding 48 hours.

Communication devices used by Aloysius are in the custody of the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) of the Police attached to the PCoI for investigation and ASG Kodagoda yesterday submitted 8, 600 pages of data extricated from Aloysius’ phone.

Aloysius is being investigated for unprecedented gains made by Perpetual Treasuries at a bond auction at the Central Bank of Sri Lanka while his father-in-law Arjuna Mahendran was at the helm.

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