{"id":112777,"date":"2021-03-18T17:01:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T00:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=112777"},"modified":"2021-03-18T17:01:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T00:01:04","slug":"arjuna-mahendran-extradition-ag-sends-clarification-to-singapore-for-third-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/03\/18\/arjuna-mahendran-extradition-ag-sends-clarification-to-singapore-for-third-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Arjuna Mahendran extradition: AG sends clarification to Singapore for third time"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Attorney General has reportedly made clarifications to his Singaporean counterpart for a third time regarding the request of extraditing the former Central Bank (CBSL) Governor Arjuna Mahendran.<\/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=\"\u0d85\u0dbb\u0dca\u0da2\u0dd4\u0db1 \u0db8\u0dc4\u0dda\u0db1\u0dca\u0daf\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0db1\u0dca \u0d9c\u0dd0\u0db1 \u0db1\u0dd3\u0dad\u0dd2\u0db4\u0dad\u0dd2 \u0dc3\u0dd2\u0d82\u0d9c\u0db4\u0dca\u0db4\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0da7 \u0d9a\u0dc5 \u0daf\u0dd0\u0db1\u0dd4\u0db8\u0dca\u0daf\u0dd3\u0db8...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XHY4uBYd7gE?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>Attorney General Dappula de Livera stated this before the Permanent High Court Trial-at-Bar in Colombo today (March 18).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arjuna Mahendran is one of the major suspects wanted by the authorities in connection with the Central Bank bond scam case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case was taken up today (March 18) before Justices Champa Janaki Rajaratne, Damith Thotawatte, and Namal Balalle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In September 2019, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs forwarded the extradition request on Arjuna Mahendran, to the Sri Lankan High Commission in Singapore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The extradition request was then forwarded to the Government of Singapore for necessary action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) informed Sri Lanka that the former Central Bank Governor has changed his name to \u2018Harjan Alexander\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General has reportedly made clarifications to his Singaporean counterpart for a third time regarding the request of extraditing the former Central Bank (CBSL) Governor Arjuna Mahendran. Attorney General Dappula de Livera stated this before the Permanent High Court Trial-at-Bar in Colombo today (March 18). Arjuna Mahendran is one of the major [&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-112777","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\/112777","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=112777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}