{"id":89527,"date":"2019-05-29T14:09:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T21:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=89527"},"modified":"2019-05-29T14:09:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T21:09:45","slug":"finance-ministrys-media-chief-released-after-questioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/29\/finance-ministrys-media-chief-released-after-questioning\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Ministry\u2019s media chief released after questioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Media Director of the Ministry of Finance Mohamed Ali Hassan, who was arrested today (29) over possession of 12-bore gun ammunition, has been released by the police following interrogations, Police Media Spokesperson SP Ruwan Gunasekara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/adaderanaenglish.s3.amazonaws.com\/1559145991-Finance-Ministry-s-media-chief-released-after-questioning-3.jpg\" alt=\"Finance Ministry\u00e2\u0080\u0099s media chief released after questioning\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>93 rounds of 12-bore gun ammunition were recovered this morning, from the outdoor space of his residence at Malwana area in Biyagama.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Army and the Police had carried out a joint cordon and search in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The security forces have managed to recover the haul from the upper part of the patio of his residence, according to the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Finance Ministry\u2019s media director was arrested on the spot for further questioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SP Gunasekara further stated that an Assistant Superintendent of Police had inspected the location extensively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police have sought the Attorney General\u2019s advice on the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was reported that the said piece of land, where the ammunition was recovered, belongs to his father-in-law, who had been in possession of a licensed firearm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Media Director of the Ministry of Finance Mohamed Ali Hassan, who was arrested today (29) over possession of 12-bore gun ammunition, has been released by the police following interrogations, Police Media Spokesperson SP Ruwan Gunasekara. 93 rounds of 12-bore gun ammunition were recovered this morning, from the outdoor space of his residence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89527","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=89527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}