{"id":70540,"date":"2017-10-10T23:39:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T05:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=70540"},"modified":"2017-10-10T16:23:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T23:23:03","slug":"litro-gas-chairman-arrested-news-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/10\/10\/litro-gas-chairman-arrested-news-item\/","title":{"rendered":"Litro Gas Chairman arrested\u00a0\u00a0 News Item \u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera \u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em>Litro Gas Chairman Shalila Moonasinghe was arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) today in connection with the alleged transferring of USD 1.1 million from Far Eastern International Bank of Taiwan to his personal account in Sri Lanka, CID sources said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>2017-10-09 20:03:08<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine such people heading a prime GOBU which supplies an essential commodity to the people of Sri Lanka being appointed by the Minister in charge who was also shamed for Bond issue .And yet people may be thinking <\/p>\n<p>What can we do?<\/p>\n<p>Opposition also cannot throw stones from glass houses.<\/p>\n<p>These people will get bailed and then travel abroad to stash the loot somewhere else?<\/p>\n<p>Further investigations may reveal that all the purchase of Gas during last few years were carried out with extensive kick backs which is the reason for raising gas prices ?<\/p>\n<p>With all the allegations against Premadasa ,he was much more decisive in taking action against culprits .I remember him sacking few chairmen running corporation with less than 24 hours notice.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka is becoming a country of\u00a0  Ali baba and forty ( more than 40 appointed law makers \u00a0) thieves !<\/p>\n<p>Enough is enough \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Government headed by the President should pray at Thirupathi and ask for divine help to get rid of the culprits .<\/p>\n<p>We citizens who voted for Yahaplanaya have to hide the head in the sand like Ostriches because we cannot face the society.<\/p>\n<p>This may be just the tip of the iceberg ,and new CIABOS under a different regime may have to work day and night to catch thieves ?<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera \u00a0 Litro Gas Chairman Shalila Moonasinghe was arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) today in connection with the alleged transferring of USD 1.1 million from Far Eastern International Bank of Taiwan to his personal account in Sri Lanka, CID sources said. 2017-10-09 20:03:08 Can you imagine such people heading a prime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70540","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=70540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}