{"id":85328,"date":"2019-02-03T17:56:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T00:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=85328"},"modified":"2019-02-03T17:56:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T00:56:43","slug":"customs-dg-was-removed-to-protect-a-businessman-mahinda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/02\/03\/customs-dg-was-removed-to-protect-a-businessman-mahinda\/","title":{"rendered":"Customs DG was removed to protect a businessman &#8211; Mahinda"},"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>According to Mahinda Rajapaksa, the removal of the Director General of Sri Lanka Customs was a measure taken by the government to protect a businessman.<\/p>\n<p>The Opposition Leader points out that state officials cannot be unfairly transferred based on the whims of ministers.<\/p>\n<p>He mentioned this to the media following an event held at the Bellanwila Rajamaha Viharaya.<\/p>\n<p>Rajapaksa further said that forming a national government is a joke.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Customs DG was removed to protect a businessman - Mahinda  (English)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/of1NTT-fMJc?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Charunya Rajakaruna\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana According to Mahinda Rajapaksa, the removal of the Director General of Sri Lanka Customs was a measure taken by the government to protect a businessman. The Opposition Leader points out that state officials cannot be unfairly transferred based on the whims of ministers. He mentioned this to the media following an event [&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-85328","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\/85328","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=85328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}