President directs CBSL to provide relief for The Finance, ETI depositors

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has instructed the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) to examine and immediately provide relief to depositors of the collapsed financial institutions The Finance and ETI.

The President has said that the proceedings should be monitored through a committee set up representing the Presidential Secretariat, the Central Bank, the Treasury, and the Depositors.

The President made these remarks at a meeting held at the Presidential Secretariat today (29) to look into how the depositors of ETI and The Finance depositors are paid.

At the meeting, the measures taken by the Central bank with regard to the relevant financial institutions had been discussed at length, the Presidential Media Division said.