{"id":154592,"date":"2026-02-08T17:21:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=154592"},"modified":"2026-02-08T17:21:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:21:37","slug":"bribery-commission-to-investigate-complaint-against-the-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/02\/08\/bribery-commission-to-investigate-complaint-against-the-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Bribery Commission to investigate complaint against the Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has decided to launch an inquiry into a complaint filed by the suspended Deputy Secretary General of Parliament, Chaminda Kularatne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kularatne was recently suspended from his post following a decision made by the Parliamentary Staff Advisory Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspension reportedly stems from complications surrounding the legality of his initial appointment to the parliamentary staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response to his suspension, the Deputy Secretary General filed a formal complaint with the Bribery Commission on the 2nd of this month against Speaker of Parliament, Dr. Jagath Wickramaratne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The complaint, filed under the provisions of the Anti-Corruption Act, requests a fair and impartial investigation into the Speaker&#8217;s conduct and calls for necessary legal action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Commission\u2019s decision to move forward with the investigation marks a significant development in the ongoing dispute within the parliamentary administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News The Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has decided to launch an inquiry into a complaint filed by the suspended Deputy Secretary General of Parliament, Chaminda Kularatne. Kularatne was recently suspended from his post following a decision made by the Parliamentary Staff Advisory Council. The suspension reportedly stems from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154592","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=154592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154593,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154592\/revisions\/154593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}