{"id":98547,"date":"2020-02-02T12:42:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T19:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=98547"},"modified":"2020-02-02T12:42:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T19:42:39","slug":"president-calls-for-an-investigation-into-the-sri-lankan-airlines-deal-with-airbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/02\/02\/president-calls-for-an-investigation-into-the-sri-lankan-airlines-deal-with-airbus\/","title":{"rendered":"President calls for an investigation into the Sri Lankan Airlines deal with Airbus."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has called for an investigation into alleged financial misappropriation that took place between Sri Lankan Airlines and Airbus Consortium. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Accordingly the president has instructed officials to expedite the investigation and prepare a comprehensive report in this regard and submit it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Meanwhile the Chairman of Sri Lankan Airlines Ashok Pathirage has stated that the national carrier will cooperate fully with any investigation and or prosecution over the Airbus deal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d91\u0dba\u0dcf\u0dbb\u0dca \u0db6\u0dc3\u0dca \u0d9c\u0dab\u0dd4\u0daf\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dd4 \u0d9c\u0dd0\u0db1, \u0db4\u0dd6\u0dbb\u0dca\u0dab \u0dc0\u0dd2\u0db8\u0dbb\u0dca\u0dc1\u0db1\u0dba\u0d9a\u0dca \u0dc3\u0dd2\u0daf\u0dd4\u0d9a\u0dbb\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1\u0dd0\u0dba\u0dd2 \u0da2\u0db1\u0db4\u0dad\u0dd2\u0d9c\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca \u0db1\u0dd2\u0dba\u0ddd\u0d9c - Hiru News\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lBkrk7t-brA?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has called for an investigation into alleged financial misappropriation that took place between Sri Lankan Airlines and Airbus Consortium. Accordingly the president has instructed officials to expedite the investigation and prepare a comprehensive report in this regard and submit it. Meanwhile the Chairman of Sri Lankan Airlines Ashok Pathirage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption-and-bribery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98547","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=98547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}