{"id":103889,"date":"2020-06-24T14:27:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T21:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=103889"},"modified":"2020-06-24T14:27:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T21:27:37","slug":"harin-asked-me-to-do-an-illegal-activity-asp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/06\/24\/harin-asked-me-to-do-an-illegal-activity-asp\/","title":{"rendered":"Harin asked me to do an illegal activity: ASP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>UNP candidate A.S.P. Liyanage today alleged that former Foreign Employment Minister Harin Fernando asked him to perform an illegal activity when he was the Sri Lankan Ambassador to Qatar and told that he would be removed if failed to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Harin asked me to do an illegal activity: ASP\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ahXSvmo1E7E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr.Liyanage who is contesting the General Election from the UNP from Colombo said he also informed the former President about the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I challenge Mr. Fernando to prove if my allegations are false. He did say that I would be removed from the Ambassadorial post if I failed to carry out his illegal request,\u201d he said speaking at a news briefing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked the nature of the \u2018illegal\u2019 request, Mr. Liyanage said, It was a matter related to the Sri Lankan School in Qatar. The Embassy took over the school from a private management and replaced the corrupt officials. The then minister asked me not to do so because the head of the previous management was one of his neighbours.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I told the President that I can\u2019t do this and offered to return but the President said there was no need to do so and commended my service,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, he condemned the statement made by Mr. Fernando over Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith and said people should get rid of \u2018such\u2019 people from politics.&nbsp;<strong>(DSB)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror UNP candidate A.S.P. Liyanage today alleged that former Foreign Employment Minister Harin Fernando asked him to perform an illegal activity when he was the Sri Lankan Ambassador to Qatar and told that he would be removed if failed to do it. Mr.Liyanage who is contesting the General Election from the UNP [&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-103889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103889","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=103889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}