{"id":13676,"date":"2024-11-04T17:21:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T17:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/?p=13676"},"modified":"2024-11-04T17:21:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T17:21:20","slug":"a-5000-rupee-note-with-president-anuras-image-circulating-through-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/a-5000-rupee-note-with-president-anuras-image-circulating-through-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"A 5000 rupee note with President Anura\u2019s image circulating through social media?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At a time when there is a lot of talk about topics such as printing money, a series of posts circulated in social media showed that currency notes bearing the signature and the image of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social Media Posts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In these posts which are widely shared on social media, show that a currency note bearing the image of President Anura Kumara has been printed. It was also shown that the signature of him was also used in the currency notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We decided to investigate on this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fact Check<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, we checked whether the mainstream media has reported that a currency note bearing Anura Kumara\u2019s image has been issued. But they haven\u2019t reported such a news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We directed the image shared on social media to a reverse image search, where a 5000 rupee note with the batch number of the same note was found on the internet on the E- Bay<\/a> website. Archived<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below is a comparison between that five thousand rupee note and the fake edited five thousand rupee note that is being shared on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It can be seen here that the image of the bird on the right-hand note has been removed and the image of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been used instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The original note was issued in 2015. It also has the signature of Ravi Karunanayake who was the finance minister at that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, both the original and modified notes bear the signature of Mr. Arjun Mahendran, who served as the Governor of the Central Bank in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, the release date of the circulated currency notes was changed into 2024.9.21 which was the date of the presidential election. However, Anura Kumara Dissanayake gave the oath as the president on 23rd<\/sup> of September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minister Vijitha Herath, who made a statement regarding the printing of currency notes. He stated that currency notes bearing the signature and the image of the current President and the finance minister Anura Kumara Dissanayake have not been issued so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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