{"id":144150,"date":"2015-05-06T12:25:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T06:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=144150"},"modified":"2015-05-06T13:52:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T08:22:56","slug":"johnny-further-remanded-johnny-says-he-paid-the-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/johnny-further-remanded-johnny-says-he-paid-the-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Further Remanded &#8211; Johnny Says He Paid The Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former minister Minister of Co-operatives &amp; Internal Trade and UPFA MP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Johnston+Fernando&amp;x=8&amp;y=2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Johnston Fernando<\/span><\/a> who was produced before the Kurunegala Magistrate today, has been remanded till May 11.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Johnston-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-144151\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Johnston-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Johnston\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Johnston-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Johnston-1-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>He was arrested yesterday by the Financial Crime Investigation Division (FCID) on charges of financial misappropriation at Sathosa. He allegedly acquired more than Rs. 5million worth goods from \u2018Sathosa\u2019, without making any payments, police said. He was remanded till today by the Colombo Fort Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Johnston Fernando says he had paid the bills after the elections. Receipts below show the bills were settled on April 08, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-144162\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF.jpg\" alt=\"JF\" width=\"640\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF.jpg 589w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-144161\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF1.jpg\" alt=\"JF1\" width=\"640\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF1.jpg 451w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF1-300x265.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-144160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF2.jpg\" alt=\"JF2\" width=\"640\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF2.jpg 607w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF2-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-144158\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF-3.jpg\" alt=\"JF 3\" width=\"640\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF-3.jpg 448w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF-3-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-144157\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF4.jpg\" alt=\"JF4\" width=\"640\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF4.jpg 627w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF4-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-144156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF5.jpg\" alt=\"JF5\" width=\"640\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF5.jpg 541w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF5-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-144155\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF6.jpg\" alt=\"JF6\" width=\"639\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF6.jpg 587w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/JF6-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":144162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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