{"id":141683,"date":"2015-03-25T13:49:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T08:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=141683"},"modified":"2015-04-02T11:59:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T06:29:52","slug":"basil-to-be-brought-back-to-sl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/basil-to-be-brought-back-to-sl\/","title":{"rendered":"Basil To Be Brought Back To SL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police announced today that Rajapaksa sibling, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Basil+Rajapaksa&amp;x=9&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Basil<\/span><\/a> is to be brought to Sri Lanka to obtain a statement over the corruption\/financial misappropriation charges that have been leveled against him with concern to the Divi Neguma project.<\/p>\n<p>The Police spokesman ASP Ruwan Gunasekara said the newly established Financial Fraud Investigation Unit has sought the advice of the Attorney General in order to facilitate this process and added that Basil Rajapaksa would be questioned over the finances of the Divi Neguma project being deployed at the recently concluded Presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Basil Rajapaksa left to Los Angeles just two days following his brother\u2019s defeat at the Presidential election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Basil-LAX.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-136832 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Basil-LAX.jpg\" alt=\"Basil LAX\" width=\"637\" height=\"849\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Basil-LAX.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Basil-LAX-225x300.jpg 225w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 637px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 637\/849;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>*Photo &#8211; Basil Rajapaksa left to Los Angeles just two days following his brother\u2019s defeat at the Presidential election.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":61193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - 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