{"id":96222,"date":"2019-12-10T23:01:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T05:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=96222"},"modified":"2019-12-10T14:19:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T21:19:50","slug":"swiss-embassy-employees-statement-being-verified-to-be-produced-in-court-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/12\/10\/swiss-embassy-employees-statement-being-verified-to-be-produced-in-court-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss embassy employee\u2019s statement being verified, to be produced in court tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday questioned   Swiss Embassy employee Garnier Banister Francis aka Sriyalatha for the  third  day, Dec 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having been in the protective care  of the Swiss Embassy,  Colombo, Sriyalatha reported to the CID  headquarters on Sunday, Dec 08.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On behalf of Sriyalatha,  Swiss Ambassador Hanspeter Mock on Nov  27 complained to Prime Minister  Mahinda Rajapaksa of the alleged abduction of  the staffer on Nov 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The  police identified the embassy employee as the  daughter-in-law of Bevan  Perera, who contested the Gampaha District on the UNP  ticket at the  2010 parliamentary election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources said that Bevan Perera had switched allegiance to the  UNP along with the late Anura Bandaranaike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources  said that the police were in the process of verifying  her statement.  Responding to another query, sources pointed out that Swiss  Ambassador  Mock\u2019s statement had been proved not factual and the envoy himself  told  about the outcome. Sources said that her statements were being examined   vis-a-vis Ambassador\u2019 Mock\u2019s complaint and the revelations made by the  CID  following investigations into Swiss complaint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fort Chief Magistrate has prohibited the embassy employee  leaving the country till Dec 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile,  UPFA Kalutara District MP Piyal Nishantha de Silva  said that MP Dr.  Rajitha Senaratne, who claimed that the embassy staffer had  been  threatened by putting a pistol into her mouth should be questioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authoritative\n sources told The Island that the inquiry was now  primarily focused on \nthe embassy employee in the absence of any evidence to back  \nAmbassador\u2019s Mock\u2019s accusations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Island The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday questioned Swiss Embassy employee Garnier Banister Francis aka Sriyalatha for the third day, Dec 10. Having been in the protective care of the Swiss Embassy, Colombo, Sriyalatha reported to the CID headquarters on Sunday, Dec 08. On behalf of Sriyalatha, Swiss Ambassador Hanspeter Mock on Nov [&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-96222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96222","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=96222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}