{"id":97619,"date":"2020-01-11T15:26:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T22:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=97619"},"modified":"2020-01-11T15:45:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T22:45:06","slug":"govt-analyst-begins-examining-ranjans-telephone-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/01\/11\/govt-analyst-begins-examining-ranjans-telephone-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"RANJANGATE SCANDAL &#8211; Govt. Analyst begins examining Ranjan\u2019s telephone conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Police have submitted the tape recordings of telephone conversations between UNP MP Ranjan Ramanayake and some&nbsp; officials, Ministers, MPs and a judge&nbsp; during the previous government to&nbsp; the Government Analyst for an authenticity check.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Police confirmed yesterday that the confiscated tapes had been handed over to the&nbsp;Government Analyst the previous week.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A UNP spokesperson, while calling for an impartial inquiry into the allegations against Ramanayake, said that some of the telephone conversations had not been initiated by him.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was also an attempt to blame the entire&nbsp; previous&nbsp; Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government for the tapes in question, but that was not correct, the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Island The Police have submitted the tape recordings of telephone conversations between UNP MP Ranjan Ramanayake and some&nbsp; officials, Ministers, MPs and a judge&nbsp; during the previous government to&nbsp; the Government Analyst for an authenticity check. The Police confirmed yesterday that the confiscated tapes had been handed over to the&nbsp;Government Analyst the previous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97619","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=97619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}