{"id":67158,"date":"2017-06-21T22:56:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T04:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=67158"},"modified":"2017-06-21T15:33:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T22:33:38","slug":"sri-lankas-joint-opposition-wants-cbk-probed-for-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/06\/21\/sri-lankas-joint-opposition-wants-cbk-probed-for-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s Joint Opposition wants CBK probed for corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn. Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Colombo, June 20 (newsin.asia) \u2013 Sri Lanka\u2019s Joint Opposition member, Vaudeva Nanayakkara in a hard hitting letter to President Maithripala Sirisena has questioned why former President Chandrika Kumaratunga\u00a0has been appointed in a committee which will supervise investigations conducted by the CID, FCID and the police over bribery and corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Nanayakkara said he was \u2018shocked\u2019 to see Kumaratunga appointed to the committe who he alleged had been directed by the Supreme Court to be investigated into offences of bribery, corruption and malpractices.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Sri Lanka\u2019s Joint Opposition wants CBK probed for corruption\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/CBK.jpg?fit=500%2C375&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sri Lanka\u2019s Joint Opposition wants CBK probed for corruption\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed\"><\/div>\n<p>The letter alleged that of the many transactions of bribery and corruption and malpractice by her, which should have been investigated, some of the cases allegedly against the former President include the Water\u2019s Edge case, the Lanka Marine Services Case, and \u00a0a matter pertaining to a 100 perch land in Kotte.<\/p>\n<p>Your committee should have directed the investigations on the above, before having embarked on others investigations,\u201d Nanayakkara said.<\/p>\n<p>You will agree that in terms of good governance it is only but right to have investigated these as a priority before any others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nanayakkara is a staunch supporter of former President Mahinda Rajapakse who is facing several allegations of corruption and fraud during his 10 year tenure as the President.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn. Asia Colombo, June 20 (newsin.asia) \u2013 Sri Lanka\u2019s Joint Opposition member, Vaudeva Nanayakkara in a hard hitting letter to President Maithripala Sirisena has questioned why former President Chandrika Kumaratunga\u00a0has been appointed in a committee which will supervise investigations conducted by the CID, FCID and the police over bribery and corruption. Nanayakkara said he [&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-67158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67158","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=67158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}