{"id":106844,"date":"2020-09-21T16:31:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T23:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=106844"},"modified":"2020-09-21T16:31:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T23:31:59","slug":"bribery-commission-files-indictments-against-ravi-and-arjun-aloysius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/09\/21\/bribery-commission-files-indictments-against-ravi-and-arjun-aloysius\/","title":{"rendered":"Bribery Commission files indictments against Ravi and Arjun Aloysius"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Commission to Investigate Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has filed indictments against former Minister Ravi Karunanayake and the Perpetual Treasuries Limited owner Arjun Aloysius at the Colombo High Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0dbb\u0dc0\u0dd3\u0da7 \u0dc3\u0dc4 \u0d85\u0dbb\u0dca\u0da2\u0dd4\u0db1\u0dca\u0da7 \u0d91\u0dbb\u0dd9\u0dc4\u0dd2\u0dc0 \u0d85\u0dbd\u0dca\u0dbd\u0dc3\u0dca \u0d9a\u0ddc\u0db8\u0dd2\u0dc3\u0db8 \u0d9a\u0ddc\u0dc5\u0db9 \u0db8\u0dc4\u0dcf\u0db0\u0dd2\u0d9a\u0dbb\u0dab\u0dba\u0dda \u0d85\u0db0\u0dd2\u0da0\u0ddd\u0daf\u0db1\u0dcf \u0d9c\u0ddc\u0db1\u0dd4\u0d9a\u0dbb\u0dba\u0dd2\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D6VS_ocC-Xs?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>Karunanayake has been charged under Section 19 (c) of the Bribery Act for taking up residence \u2013all the while serving as the Finance Minister\u2013 at \u2018No. 5 PH2, Monarch Housing Complex\u2019 acquired under the Walt &amp; Row Associates (Pvt) Ltd, where the second accused of the case Arjun Aloysius is a director, during the period from 12th February to 30th September, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The indictments allege that defendant Aloysius had paid a sum of Rs 11.68 million, through cheques of Walt &amp; Row Associates (Pvt) Ltd and Purchasing Capital Company, for the said house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arjun Aloysius, the second accused in the case, has also been indicted under Section 19 (c) of the Bribery Act for aiding and abetting the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, the total number of indictments filed against the two defendants in this case is six.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Commission to Investigate Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has filed indictments against former Minister Ravi Karunanayake and the Perpetual Treasuries Limited owner Arjun Aloysius at the Colombo High Court. Karunanayake has been charged under Section 19 (c) of the Bribery Act for taking up residence \u2013all the while serving as the Finance Minister\u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106844","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=106844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}