May 5, 20261h 41min
Rs. 750 Million Went Missing And the Government Called it a 'Hack' | Dr. Harsha de Silva
with Dr. Harsha De Silva, Deputy Leader, Main Opposition Party & Chair, Parliamentary Finance Committee, Parliament of Sri Lanka
In this episode of From the Island, we sit down to have a conversation with Dr. Harsha de Silva: PhD economist, MP for the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, former Minister of Economic Reforms, and Chairman of the Committee on Public Finance (COPF). He is also the founder of Sri Lanka's 1990 Suwa Seriya emergency ambulance service.
We cover everything from how parliamentary oversight of public finances actually works, to the controversial $2.5 million miss