{"id":149379,"date":"2015-08-21T00:39:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T19:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=149379"},"modified":"2015-08-21T02:03:57","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T20:33:57","slug":"fcid-resumes-its-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/fcid-resumes-its-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"FCID Resumes Its Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Financial Crimes Investigation Department (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=FCID&amp;x=12&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">FCID<\/span><\/a>) resumed their hunt questioning members of the former President Mahinda Rajapaksa&#8217;s regime barely 48 hours after the elections when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Shashi+Weerawansa&amp;x=15&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Shashi Weerawansa<\/span><\/a> the wife of MP Wimal Weerawansa and Former Governor of the Central Bank <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Ajith+Nivard+Cabraal&amp;x=13&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ajith Nivard Cabraal<\/span><\/a> were called in for questioning today.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_140237\" style=\"width: 402px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Sashi-Weerawansa.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-140237\" class=\" wp-image-140237\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Sashi-Weerawansa.png\" alt=\"Sashi Weerawansa|File Photo\" width=\"392\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Sashi-Weerawansa.png 766w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Sashi-Weerawansa-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-140237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sashi Weerawansa|File Photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Whilst Shashi Weerawansa was questioned regarding her acquisition of assets, mode of utility bill payments and her monthly income, Cabraal was summoned to record a statement pertaining to fraud on the hedging deal and the alleged fraud that took place when the Urban Development Authority acquired a private company.<\/p>\n<p>Shashi Weerawansa&#8217;s lawyer Kapila Gamage had stated earlier that his client would render all support to the FCID as long as it is within the frame work of the law.<\/p>\n<p>The Chairman of the Eastern Provincial Council Ariyawathi Galappaththi was also summoned to the FCID today.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Udaya+Gammanpila&amp;x=8&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Udaya Gammanpila<\/span><\/a> was summoned by the Police Special Investigation Unit (SIU) based on a complaint made by an Australian national Brian Chaddick that Aus $ 100,000 worth of shares belonging to him were sold. Gammanpila later informed the press that there is no record of the Australian national providing him with the power of attorney to sell his shares.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago the former Defence Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Shashi+Weerawansa&amp;x=15&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Gotabaya Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a> was ordered to appear before the special presidential commission when the Mirihana Police who visited his residence had pasted the notice on his gate. This was after army security personnel at his residence informed the police that Gotabaya Rajapaksa had instructed them not to accept any letters on his behalf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":140237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6980,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-sri-lanka-parliamentary-elections-2015","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>FCID Resumes Its Hunt - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/fcid-resumes-its-hunt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FCID Resumes Its Hunt - 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