{"id":79527,"date":"2018-07-23T14:04:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T21:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=79527"},"modified":"2018-07-23T14:04:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T21:04:20","slug":"they-are-taking-revenge-because-i-refused-a-ministerial-portfolio-johnston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/07\/23\/they-are-taking-revenge-because-i-refused-a-ministerial-portfolio-johnston\/","title":{"rendered":"They are taking revenge because I refused a ministerial portfolio \u2013 Johnston"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"news-author\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/authors\/14\/charunya-rajakaruna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charunya Rajakaruna\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"news-content\">\n<p>Former Minister Johnston Fernando stated at the Colombo Magistrate\u2019s Court that, he is being charged against by the Bribery Commission because he rejected a ministerial portfolio offered by the Yahapalana government.<\/p>\n<p>A case against Fernando, filed under the Bribery act for not providing assets and liabilities for the year 2010, was taken up today (23) at the Colombo Magistrate\u2019s Court.<\/p>\n<p>Defendant former minister Fernando made a statement that he was offered a ministerial portfolio by the President Sirisena after his victory in 2015, which he rejected.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, they have been taking revenge against him and the series of charges filed under the Bribery Act against him is also an act of revenge.<\/p>\n<p>He says that, measures have already been taken to produce the assets and liabilities for year 2010 to the President and the charge against him is baseless; therefore, he pleaded the court to acquit and release him.<\/p>\n<p>Recording the statements from Johnston Fernando has concluded and Colombo Chief Magistrate Ranga Dissanayake ordered that the evidence of the defense be called on August 29th.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Charunya Rajakaruna\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana Former Minister Johnston Fernando stated at the Colombo Magistrate\u2019s Court that, he is being charged against by the Bribery Commission because he rejected a ministerial portfolio offered by the Yahapalana government. A case against Fernando, filed under the Bribery act for not providing assets and liabilities for the year 2010, was taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption-and-bribery","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79527","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=79527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}