{"id":51005,"date":"2016-01-12T06:36:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T13:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=51005"},"modified":"2016-01-12T06:36:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T13:36:17","slug":"avant-garde-security-firm-to-sue-sri-lanka-navy-for-rs-2-5-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/01\/12\/avant-garde-security-firm-to-sue-sri-lanka-navy-for-rs-2-5-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Avant-Garde security firm to sue Sri Lanka Navy for Rs. 2.5 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Sri Lanka News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Avant Garde private security firm has sent a letter of demand to Sri Lanka Navy demanding Rs. 2.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>President&#8217;s Counsel Kuvera de Zoysa representing the company made this revelation before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Large Scale Corruption and Abuse of Power (PRECIFAC).<\/p>\n<p>The security firm has alleged that the Navy action was in violation of the agreements entered between Avant-Garde and Rakna Arakshaka Lanka Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>Avant-Garde in the letter of demand has said that the though the Galle floating armory was intended to be run and continued as a part of the joint venture between State-owned Rakna Arakshaka Lanka and Avant-Garde till 2019, by the unlawful take over on 13 November 2015 by the Sri Lankan Navy, serious losses and damages has been caused to Avant-Garde, and in the event this amount is not paid, Avant-Garde is to file legal action to recover the said sum of money.<\/p>\n<p>The security firm has taken action after the government ordered the Navy to take over the maritime security operations of Avant Garde.<\/p>\n<p>He said a copy of the letter of demand had already been sent to the Attorney General&#8217;s Department. The move came after the government ordered the Navy take over operations of Avant Garde company on the maritime security front.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka News Avant Garde private security firm has sent a letter of demand to Sri Lanka Navy demanding Rs. 2.5 billion. President&#8217;s Counsel Kuvera de Zoysa representing the company made this revelation before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Large Scale Corruption and Abuse of Power (PRECIFAC). The security firm has alleged that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51005","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=51005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}