{"id":137985,"date":"2023-10-31T16:08:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T23:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=137985"},"modified":"2023-10-31T16:08:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T23:08:26","slug":"travel-ban-on-two-govt-officials-in-substandard-immunoglobulin-importation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/10\/31\/travel-ban-on-two-govt-officials-in-substandard-immunoglobulin-importation-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel ban on two govt officials in substandard immunoglobulin importation case"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The owner of the company, which stands accused of importing 22,500 substandard immunoglobulin vials, and two top government employees who approved the importation have been imposed a foreign travel ban by the Maligakanda Magistrate&#8217;s Court yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, the three persons, who were imposed with foreign travel bans in the case pertaining to the alleged importation of substandard immunoglobulin are Dr. Vijith Gunasekera (Director General \/ CEO, National Medicines Regulatory Authority), Dr. Kapila Wickramanayake (Director Supply, Ministry of Health, and Aruna Deepthi (Proprietor of the relevant company).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accepting a request made by the Criminal Investigations Department stating that those involved in this crime are ready to leave the country, the magistrate has imposed a travel ban and ordered the immigration controller to be informed that the relevant persons have been banned from leaving the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The magistrate further ordered the CID to immediately arrest other suspects involved in the crime and bring them to court.&nbsp;<strong>(Manopriya Gunasekera)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror The owner of the company, which stands accused of importing 22,500 substandard immunoglobulin vials, and two top government employees who approved the importation have been imposed a foreign travel ban by the Maligakanda Magistrate&#8217;s Court yesterday. Accordingly, the three persons, who were imposed with foreign travel bans in the case pertaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137985","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=137985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}