{"id":63748,"date":"2017-02-25T15:55:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T22:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=63748"},"modified":"2017-02-25T15:55:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T22:55:18","slug":"mahinda-to-sue-finance-ministry-cbsl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/02\/25\/mahinda-to-sue-finance-ministry-cbsl\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahinda to sue Finance Ministry, CBSL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"video-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/authors\/index.php?aid=9\" target=\"_blank\">By Binoy Suriyaarachchi<\/a>\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"newsContent\">\n<p>I\u2019m seeking legal assistance to sue the Finance Ministry and the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says.<\/p>\n<p>After 9 January, I am no longer the Minister of Finance of this country,\u201d Rajapaksa said.<\/p>\n<p>He also went on to say his successors at the Finance Ministry have allegedly siphoned off state money by using his name.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m taking legal actions,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Rajapaksa made the observations while speaking to reporters after an event held in Horana.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mahinda to sue Finance Ministry, CBSL\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p1Y50MSvsog?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/news\/39286\/mahinda-to-sue-finance-ministry-cbsl#sthash.wZcO8sNY.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Binoy Suriyaarachchi\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana I\u2019m seeking legal assistance to sue the Finance Ministry and the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says. After 9 January, I am no longer the Minister of Finance of this country,\u201d Rajapaksa said. He also went on to say his successors at the Finance Ministry have allegedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63748","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=63748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}