{"id":143237,"date":"2015-04-23T00:02:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T18:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=143237"},"modified":"2015-05-01T03:31:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T22:01:45","slug":"basil-rajapaksa-remanded-till-may-5th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/basil-rajapaksa-remanded-till-may-5th\/","title":{"rendered":"Basil Rajapaksa Remanded Till May 5th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Economic Development Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Basil+Rajapaksa&amp;x=13&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Basil Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a> was remanded till May 5th by the Kaduwela magistrate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Basil-Rajapaksa.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-61193 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Basil-Rajapaksa-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Basil Rajapaksa\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Basil-Rajapaksa-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Basil-Rajapaksa-50x50.jpg 50w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/150;\" \/><\/a>Two other officials, former Secretary of the Ministry Nihal Jayatilake and former Divineguma Fund Director General R.R.K. Ranawaka, who were accused of committing fraud under the \u2018Divi neguma\u2019 fund were also remanded.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s brother Basil was questioned for several hours since last morning and he was later arrested. Basil Rajapaksa returned to Sri Lanka yesterday from the United States .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related posts;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/basil-a-traitor-and-rajapaksas-delegation-to-the-us\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Basil A Traitor And Rajapaksa\u2019s Delegation To The US<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143237","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 v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Basil Rajapaksa Remanded Till May 5th - 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