{"id":103497,"date":"2020-06-14T13:52:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T20:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=103497"},"modified":"2020-06-14T13:52:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T20:52:55","slug":"govt-mulls-new-laws-to-curb-leasing-mafia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/06\/14\/govt-mulls-new-laws-to-curb-leasing-mafia\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt mulls new laws to curb leasing mafia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The government will introduce new legislation to curb \u2018the leasing mafia\u2019 or the unlawful activities of the disorganised financial market, a minister said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cabinet Spokesman Minister Bandula Gunawardane told Daily Mirror that around 800 &#8211; 1,000 such financial institutions were in operation in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government has given mind to introduce fresh legislation after the murder of President of the Self Employed Three Wheeler Association Sunil Jayawardane by a group of individuals attached to a leasing company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Jayawardane was assaulted to death when he visited a leasing company in the Mirihana area to inquire about a vehicle seized from a member of his association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister said the employment of persons with muscle power to seize vehicles and properties from defaulters of payment was unlawful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have to amend the existing laws or introduce new ones to curb such strong-arm tactics in the disorganised financial market,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror The government will introduce new legislation to curb \u2018the leasing mafia\u2019 or the unlawful activities of the disorganised financial market, a minister said. Cabinet Spokesman Minister Bandula Gunawardane told Daily Mirror that around 800 &#8211; 1,000 such financial institutions were in operation in the country. The government has given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}