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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mr.tikko" data-source="post: 10581781" data-attributes="member: 319171">The parliamentary Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) said yesterday  it would probe the activities of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) focusing mainly  on how it spent Rs.7.19 billion on three cricket stadiums and the  payment of Cricket World Cup bonus, legal fees and the sale of tickets. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/lol.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="LOL    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/lol.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="LOL    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/lol.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="LOL    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /><img src="http://www.cricturf.com/images/stories/investigate.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />A highly placed parliament source told Daily Mirror the SLC had not  prepared a Corporate Plan, Action Plan or a Budget for this year to be  submitted to the Auditor General and to the COPE as required by law but  had made a special payment of Rs.14,965,000 to 133 employees as World  Cup bonuses.He said formal approval was not sought for the payment of world cup  bonus and 134 employees have been exempted from the bonus and that the  criteria for selection for the payment of bonus were not clear.  The source said this had happened in spite of overspending nearly  Rs.3.89 billion to construct the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket  Stadium (MRICS), to renovate the R. Premadasa International Cricket  Stadium (RPICS) and the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium (PICS).The SLC cricket had spent a colossal Rs.7.19 billion for the three  projects while the estimated cost was only Rs.3.3 billion. Meanwhile  members of the former and present Cricket Interim Committee (CIC) have  been summoned by COPE to appear before it on July 6 where some startling  revelations had been made. The source said the ‘Examination on the 2010 Performance and Current  Affairs’ of the SLC prepared and submitted to COPE by the Auditor  General’s Department had found there was no proper recruitment procedure  or an approved cadre for the SLC. He said there had been only 17 in the staff of the Sri Lanka Cricket  Board in 1996, the year Sri Lanka won the Cricket World Cup while the  SLC’s current cadre of 267 includes overage and under age employees but  most of its work had been outsourced. It was learnt that COPE had called for a breakdown of the initial  estimates and actual expenditure for the three projects. The SLC has  printed 272,318 tickets to the value of Rs.96,218,150 for the 12 matches  matches played in Sri Lanka. The value of the tickets sold was  Rs.89,347,890 but only Rs.67,384,490 had been accounted for leaving a  deficit of Rs.21,963,400 and while 50,847 complementary tickets had been  printed no approval had been granted by the interim committee to print  or issue complementary tickets. The details of these tickets were not  available to be audited. The SLC’s legal fees had amounted to some Rs.51 million paid out between  2007 and 2010. It has been observed that Rs.17,189,485 had been paid as  legal charges last year for the case instituted against SLC by South  Cricket Club alone requesting it to hold elections.According to the Auditor General’s report SLC had miserably failed to  provide replies to audit queries for matters that had arisen during the  past three years except for 25 audit queries. By the beginning of this year, SLC had outstanding bank loans, bank  overdrafts and ICC loans to the value of Rs.2,373 million in addition to  the overspending of Rs.3.89 billion for the three cricket stadiums.The source said the COPE session continued for more than three hours and  a volley of questions to the members of the present and old interim  committee came from both the opposition and government MPs.However, COPE Chairman and senior minister D.E.W. Gunasekara when  contacted by Daily Mirror for further information declined to comment  saying he was bound by parliamentary privileges not to disclose  information to a third party.“I am sorry I can’t divulge information on what transpired at the COPE  sessions for the reason of parliamentary privilege. What I can say is  that the inquiries will continue. When the report was presented to  Parliament you will know everything,” Mr. Gunasekara said. He said he  advised the new interim committee chairman Upali Dharmadasa to put the  house in order. Some members of the two interim committees who were not present were  noticed to show cause as to why they failed to appear before COPE on the  day they were summoned. A new interim committee was appointed five days  before the date fixed for the COPE proceedings, the source added. <a href="http://www.dailymirror.lk/news/12335-cope-to-probe-slc.html" target="_blank">(Daily Mirror online)</a> Read more: <a href="http://www.cricturf.com/newsbox/44-hot/1215-cope-to-probe-sri-lanka-cricket-robes.html#ixzz1RZvyZR7z" target="_blank">http://www.cricturf.com/newsbox/44-hot/1215-cope-to-probe-sri-lanka-cricket-robes.html#ixzz1RZvyZR7z</a> </blockquote>

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