{"id":151598,"date":"2025-08-26T16:52:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T23:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=151598"},"modified":"2025-08-26T16:52:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T23:52:20","slug":"national-audit-office-report-clears-accusation-argues-ranils-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/08\/26\/national-audit-office-report-clears-accusation-argues-ranils-counsel\/","title":{"rendered":"NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE REPORT CLEARS ACCUSATION, ARGUES RANIL&#8217;S COUNSEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe\u2019s legal counsels say that the National Audit Office has conducted an audit on the President\u2019s expenditure head and there\u2019s no mention of a misuse of state funds, adding that there\u2019s no case, and the accusation against him is false.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe\u2019s legal counsels say that the National Audit Office has conducted an audit on the President\u2019s expenditure head and there\u2019s no mention of a misuse of state funds, adding that there\u2019s no case, and the accusation against him is false.<\/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-151598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151598","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=151598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}