{"id":72541,"date":"2017-12-07T13:28:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T20:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=72541"},"modified":"2017-12-07T13:28:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T20:28:51","slug":"bond-scam-probe-commissions-term-extended-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/12\/07\/bond-scam-probe-commissions-term-extended-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Bond scam probe commission\u2019s term extended again"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By Shyam Nuwan Ganewatte\u00a0Courtesy The Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The tenure of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the alleged bond scams has been extended by another 23-days and it was the fourth extension given.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission was established on January 27, 2017, by a special gazette notification no. 2003\/41 as per article two of Commissions Act.<\/p>\n<p>Thereafter its tenure was extended twice by three months each and a further six months subsequently.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, the duration given for the Commission was to have expired today (8) and its report was to be handed over to President Maithripala Sirisena today.<\/p>\n<p>However the tenure of the Commission has been further extended by another 23-days till December 31 and it was promulgated via gazette notification 2048\/29 of December 6.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission was established for the express purpose of investigate and report on the treasury bond issues during the period February 1, 2015 and March 31, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shyam Nuwan Ganewatte\u00a0Courtesy The Island The tenure of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the alleged bond scams has been extended by another 23-days and it was the fourth extension given. The Commission was established on January 27, 2017, by a special gazette notification no. 2003\/41 as per article two of Commissions Act. Thereafter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72541","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=72541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}