{"id":60912,"date":"2016-11-25T02:19:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T09:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=60912"},"modified":"2016-11-25T02:20:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T09:20:03","slug":"jo-files-complaint-against-minister-malik-samarawickrama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/11\/25\/jo-files-complaint-against-minister-malik-samarawickrama\/","title":{"rendered":"JO files complaint against Minister Malik Samarawickrama"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-7 col-sm-8 col-xs-12\">\n<div id=\"newsItemComplete\">\n<div class=\"newsContent\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Joint Opposition today lodged a complaint with the Bribery Commission against Minister of Development Strategies and International Trade Malik Samarawickrama, UPFA MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the corruption complaint accuses the minister of causing loses to the government amounting to around Rs 1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press briefing in Colombo, the MP said that the complaint was lodged today with the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption and that it will also be handed over to the Financial Crimes Investigations Division (FCID).<\/p>\n<p>Aluthgamage said that this is the third revelation by the Joint Opposition since launching a campaign to reveal the corrupt politicians in the incumbent government and file complaints against them.<\/p>\n<p>He said that such revelations will not be made all at once and that they will reveal these to the public gradually.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adaderana The Joint Opposition today lodged a complaint with the Bribery Commission against Minister of Development Strategies and International Trade Malik Samarawickrama, UPFA MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage said. He said that the corruption complaint accuses the minister of causing loses to the government amounting to around Rs 1 billion. Speaking at a press briefing in Colombo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60912","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=60912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}