The five-member-Special Committee appointed by the Bar Council of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) over the controversial BASL-JICA issue has found that the President of BASL, Kaushalya Navaratne PC has failed to act with transparency in relation to the contract entered into by the BASL with JICA and thus has violated the trust as the President of the BASL.
The five member comprising Faisz Musthapha PC (Chairman), Dr. K. Kanag Iswaran PC, Ikram Mohamed PC, Rienzie Arseculeratne PC and Geoffrey Alagaratnam PC held that the material placed before the Committee disclosed a contractual process and selection of Resource Persons and Researches for payment lacked transparency and had been handled almost entirely by Kaushalya Nawaratne.
On May 18, 2024, the BASL Bar Council appointed a five-member-committee to look into allegations pertaining to the BASL project funded by the JICA relating to promotion of a transparent and competitive business climate (Anti-Corruption) in Sri Lanka, as a Committee of Inquiry.