{"id":142214,"date":"2024-06-01T14:53:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T21:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=142214"},"modified":"2024-06-01T14:53:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T21:53:44","slug":"hadunnetti-apologises-to-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/06\/01\/hadunnetti-apologises-to-elon-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"Hadunnetti apologises to Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/author\/AJITH-SIRIWARDANA\/126\">\u00a0<\/a>By\u00a0<span class=\"a-profile\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/author\/AJITH-SIRIWARDANA\/126\">AJITH SIRIWARDANA Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, June 1 (Daily Mirror) Claiming that he never meant to call billionaire businessman Elon Musk an economic hit-man, NPP Economic Council member Sunil Hadunnetti said today he expresses his regrets to Elon Musk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking during a Business Forum, Hadunnetti said his reference to economic hit-men was to James Packer and George Soros who were brought into the country during the previous Ranil Wickremesinghe government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I was misquoted on what I said about Elon Musk. I didn&#8217;t mean to call Elon Misk an economic hit-man. What I explained was that world renowned investors never come to Sri Lanka due to its instability, political interventions in the economy, lack of discipline and lawlessness. My reference to economic hit-men was not to Elon Musk but to James Packer and George Soros. We do not call them honest entrepreneurs but economic hit-men. I never meant to call Elon Musk an economic hit-man. I offer my regrets to Elon Musk as I never meant to call him an economic hit-man,&#8221; Hadunnetti said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0By\u00a0AJITH SIRIWARDANA Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, June 1 (Daily Mirror) Claiming that he never meant to call billionaire businessman Elon Musk an economic hit-man, NPP Economic Council member Sunil Hadunnetti said today he expresses his regrets to Elon Musk. Speaking during a Business Forum, Hadunnetti said his reference to economic hit-men was to James [&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-142214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142214","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=142214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}