{"id":98962,"date":"2020-02-13T17:32:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T00:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=98962"},"modified":"2020-02-13T17:32:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T00:32:55","slug":"airbus-scandal-on-pathikada-feb-13-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/02\/13\/airbus-scandal-on-pathikada-feb-13-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"AIRBUS SCANDAL ON PATHIKADA &#8211; Feb 13, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Mahinda Gunasekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Discussing the subject matter on Pathikada program today to try and figure out the large sums of money lost by the National Airline as a result of irregular Commissions availed of by the CEO and other unknown parties holding positions on the Airline&#8217;s Board and politicians who played role in the original order from AirBus and subsequent decision to cancel a segment of the original order resulting in penalties to be borne by the airline and payment of commissions to those negotiating terms with the supplier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This ill-conceived order based on earning commissions by high ups and subsequent cancellation resulting in huge penalties, plus personal commissions extracted from the debt-ridden airline coming on top of the Central Bank Bond Scam is a double whammy that would sink the airline and the public who will be required to make good such losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authorities concerned should get to the bottom of\nthis scandalous robbery and ensure that the monies wrongly obtained are\nrecovered and due punishment meted out.&nbsp; Your suggestion to withhold\nvoting any politician tainted with such dishonest conduct, and electing those\nfree of any wrongdoing or corruption will serve the nation well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The LINK to the Pathikada discussion is given below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lankan Airlines Airbus , Bribery Scam- <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/TuSLMRnhhK\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/TuSLMRnhhK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db4\u0dd0\u0dad\u0dd2\u0d9a\u0da9 #Pathikada\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TuSLMRnhhKs?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\n\n\n<p>Mahinda Gunasekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahinda Gunasekera Discussing the subject matter on Pathikada program today to try and figure out the large sums of money lost by the National Airline as a result of irregular Commissions availed of by the CEO and other unknown parties holding positions on the Airline&#8217;s Board and politicians who played role in the original order [&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-98962","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\/98962","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=98962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}