{"id":55876,"date":"2016-06-22T15:20:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T22:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=55876"},"modified":"2016-06-22T15:20:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T22:20:14","slug":"i-never-said-mahinda-siphoned-off-money-rajitha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/06\/22\/i-never-said-mahinda-siphoned-off-money-rajitha\/","title":{"rendered":"I never said Mahinda siphoned off money &#8211; Rajitha"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"fb-like fb_iframe_widget\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/adaderana\" data-send=\"false\" data-width=\"450\" data-show-faces=\"true\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"fb-like fb_iframe_widget\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/adaderana\" data-send=\"false\" data-width=\"450\" data-show-faces=\"true\">I never said that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa siphoned off money, Minister Rajitha Senaratne says.<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsContent\">\nThe observation was made at a press conference held in Colombo this afternoon (22).<br \/>\nI asserted that Rajapaksas were behind this, and as well as it was those who were around him involved in this,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nFormer President Rajapaksa earlier said that he will cut his throat if the authorities find evidence to prove this.<br \/>\nThey say I have stolen $18 billion, but if they find evidence of even $1, I will cut my throat,\u201d he said in an interview with Jeff Kingston for the Japan Times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/adaderana.lk\/news.php?mode=beauti&amp;nid=35776#sthash.k60RotBu.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adaderana I never said that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa siphoned off money, Minister Rajitha Senaratne says. The observation was made at a press conference held in Colombo this afternoon (22). I asserted that Rajapaksas were behind this, and as well as it was those who were around him involved in this,\u201d he added. Former President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55876","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=55876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}