Samagi Jana Balawegaya MP Mayantha Dissanayake said W.M. Mendis & Co. Ltd, owned by the controversial businessman Arjuna Aloysius, has been given permission to resume business operations despite massive tax evasions.

Dissanayake questioned the basis on which the liquor company has been given "special concessions'.

"W.M. Mendis & Co. Ltd, owned by Arjun Aloysius, has defaulted a staggering Rs.1.1 Bill. tax payment to the Excise Dept. They've been permitted to resume operations despite this massive tax evasion. It is evident as to why the culprits of the Bond Scam won't be brought to justice," Dissanayake tweeted.

Aloysius, the son-in-law of former Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran, is at the centre of the bond scam which crippled the previous government and its main stakeholder, the United National Party.

Although Aloysius has been prodecued in connecion with the bond scam, the former Central Bank government is still in hiding evading Sri Lanka's law enforcement authoities.

it is widely beleved that Aloysius has close personal links with a number of stalwarts in the government and in the opposition.