{"id":132903,"date":"2023-03-13T16:43:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T23:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=132903"},"modified":"2023-03-13T16:43:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T23:43:14","slug":"immigration-dept-apologizes-to-mahindananda-probe-underway-into-airport-mishap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/03\/13\/immigration-dept-apologizes-to-mahindananda-probe-underway-into-airport-mishap\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Dept apologizes to Mahindananda; probe underway into airport mishap"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Department of Immigration and Emigration says an investigation is underway after MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage, who arrived at Katunayake Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) to depart for a foreign visit, was turned away last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Issuing a statement, the department explained that, as per the information received, the situation arose after an employee incorrectly entered the data of someone else into the system as the MP\u2019s passport data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, the employee who is responsible for the mishap has been suspended, pending an inquiry, the department said further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team (SLCERT) and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have initiated further investigations regarding the incident, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Controller General of Immigration and Emigration, in his statement, apologized to MP Aluthgamage for the inconvenience caused to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday night (March 10), MP Aluthgamage was turned away at the Katunayake airport citing an overseas travel ban imposed by the Matugama court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Subsequently, the parliamentarian had informed the Controller General of Immigration &amp; Emigration that no such order has been issued against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Department of Immigration and Emigration says an investigation is underway after MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage, who arrived at Katunayake Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) to depart for a foreign visit, was turned away last week. Issuing a statement, the department explained that, as per the information received, the situation arose after an employee incorrectly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132903","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=132903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}