{"id":59876,"date":"2016-10-17T14:06:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T21:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=59876"},"modified":"2016-10-17T14:06:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T21:06:12","slug":"earful-from-prez-makes-dilrukshi-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/10\/17\/earful-from-prez-makes-dilrukshi-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"Earful from Prez makes Dilrukshi quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>As a direct fallout of President Sirisena\u2019s public outburst against three state investigative bodies last week accusing them of launching politically motivated probes, Director General of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) Dilrukshi Dias Wickramasinghe tendered her resignation yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the former regime were accused of siphoning more than 18 billion dollars from the country besides owning helicopters, racing cars and even a gold horse, in the run-up to elections last year, which toppled them, but so far the investigative bodies have failed to prove the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>CIABOC sources confirmed that Wickramasinghe\u2019s resignation had been prompted by the President\u2019s remarks on the CIABOC in the wake of former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and three retired Navy commanders, being hauled up before courts.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a long levelled allegation that Wickramasinghe is a close family friend of Premier Ranil Wickremesinghe. There have also been many earlier complaints by opponents that the CIABOC is partial to wrongdoers in the government and was not pursuing cases against them.<\/p>\n<p>During the same outburst, President Sirisena also flayed the Financial Crimes Investigation Division that comes directly under the Prime Minister\u2019s office and the Criminal Investigation Department of the Police for not doing their jobs impartially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Island As a direct fallout of President Sirisena\u2019s public outburst against three state investigative bodies last week accusing them of launching politically motivated probes, Director General of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) Dilrukshi Dias Wickramasinghe tendered her resignation yesterday. Members of the former regime were accused of siphoning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59876","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=59876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}