{"id":99336,"date":"2020-02-26T17:01:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T00:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=99336"},"modified":"2020-02-26T17:01:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T00:01:35","slug":"ranjans-voice-matches-audio-clips-govt-analyst-ranjangate-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/02\/26\/ranjans-voice-matches-audio-clips-govt-analyst-ranjangate-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranjan\u2019s voice matches audio clips \u2013 Govt Analyst-RANJANGATE SCANDAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Government Analyst\u2019s Department today informed the Nugegoda Magistrate\u2019s Court that the voice on the audio clips broadcast over various media outlets matches the voice of MP Ranjan Ramanayake.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nugegoda Magistrate\u2019s Court last month ordered the Government Analyst to obtain copies of the CDs containing audio clips of MP Ranjan Ramanayake\u2019s phone conversations and data reports of the laptop and hard disk found in his house.<\/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=\"\u0db8\u0dad\u0db7\u0dda\u0daf\u0dcf\u0dad\u0dca\u0db8\u0d9a \u0dc4\u0dac\u0db4\u0da7 \u0dbb\u0db1\u0dca\u0da2\u0db1\u0dca\u0d9c\u0dda \u0dc4\u0dac \u0dc3\u0db8\u0d9f \u0d9c\u0dd0\u0dc5\u0dd9\u0db4\u0dba\u0dd2\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LlGDIfSJJXw?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>The Government Analyst\u2019s Department subsequently commenced investigations on the recordings of the MP\u2019s controversial telephone conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On January 15, the court ordered the Prisons Commissioner to produce Ramanayake before the Government\u2019s Analyst for a voice test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On February 07, the parliamentarian, who was in remand custody, was produced before the Government Analyst for the voice test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several recorded phone conversations between United National Party (UNP) MP Ranjan Ramanayake and some prominent figures in the country, including former Director of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), have been made public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several MPs and ministers of the government cited these voice tapes to the media and pointed out that MP Ramanayake had exerted influence on the police and the judiciary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Government Analyst\u2019s Department today informed the Nugegoda Magistrate\u2019s Court that the voice on the audio clips broadcast over various media outlets matches the voice of MP Ranjan Ramanayake.&nbsp; The Nugegoda Magistrate\u2019s Court last month ordered the Government Analyst to obtain copies of the CDs containing audio clips of MP Ranjan Ramanayake\u2019s phone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ranjangate-scandal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99336","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=99336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}