{"id":151596,"date":"2025-08-26T16:49:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T23:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=151596"},"modified":"2025-08-26T16:49:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T23:49:19","slug":"court-rejects-bribery-commision-request-to-sieze-former-minister-senaratnes-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/08\/26\/court-rejects-bribery-commision-request-to-sieze-former-minister-senaratnes-property\/","title":{"rendered":"COURT REJECTS BRIBERY COMMISION REQUEST TO SIEZE FORMER MINISTER SENARATNE&#8217;S PROPERTY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>A request by the Bribery Commission to seize the property of former Minister&nbsp;Rajitha Senaratne, who has an outstanding warrant for his arrest, was rejected by the Colombo Chief Magistrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The warrant was issued for Senaratne in a case where he is accused of causing a loss of over&nbsp;Rs. 20 million&nbsp;to the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The alleged offence is linked to a sand mining project at the Kirinda Fisheries Harbour, which was awarded to a Korean company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bribery Commission had sought an order to seize a property in Colombo, registered under Senaratne&#8217;s name and valued at over&nbsp;Rs. 30 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chief Magistrate advised the Commission to make the request on the next hearing date, which is the 29th, should the suspect fail to appear in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News A request by the Bribery Commission to seize the property of former Minister&nbsp;Rajitha Senaratne, who has an outstanding warrant for his arrest, was rejected by the Colombo Chief Magistrate. The warrant was issued for Senaratne in a case where he is accused of causing a loss of over&nbsp;Rs. 20 million&nbsp;to the government. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151596","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=151596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}