The Finance Ministry has informed to immediately suspend the decision taken by the board directors of corporations, statutory bodies and state banks who retire at the age of 60 to take home the vehicles given to them.

Ministry Secretary Mahinda Siriwardena has issued a special circular informing of this to the secretaries of the ministries and chairpersons of all state banks, corporations and statutory bodies.

The Ministry has taken this decision after finding out about an incident where 20 board members of a state bank attempted to take home their vehicles following the retirement.

The circular stated that the decisions taken by the directors should be cancelled and all the decisions taken regarding the vehicles should be informed to the Finance Ministry.