{"id":151049,"date":"2015-09-18T19:48:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T14:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=151049"},"modified":"2015-09-18T19:50:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T14:20:41","slug":"gotas-rakna-lanka-purchased-and-issued-illegally-former-additional-secretary-mod-admits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/gotas-rakna-lanka-purchased-and-issued-illegally-former-additional-secretary-mod-admits\/","title":{"rendered":"Gota&#8217;s Rakna Lanka Purchased And Issued Illegally: Former Additional Secretary MOD Admits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The controversial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Rakna+Arakshaka+Lanka&amp;x=9&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rakna Arakshaka Lanka<\/span><\/a> Limited (RALL) had purchased weapons without following due legal process, the former Additional Secretary to the Defence Ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Damayanthi+Jayaratne&amp;x=13&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Damayanthi Jayaratne<\/span><\/a> has admitted.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_151061\" style=\"width: 138px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Damayanthi-Jayaratne1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151061\" class=\"size-full wp-image-151061\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Damayanthi-Jayaratne1.jpg\" alt=\"Damayanthi Jayaratne \" width=\"128\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-151061\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damayanthi Jayaratne<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She has noted the above while making a statement before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (CoI) appointed to investigate serious acts of fraud, corruption and abuse of power, state resources, and privileges.<\/p>\n<p>A commission member said that Jayaratne had been questioned yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>It has been revealed that although the Ministry of Defense had issued 3,473 firearms to the firm only 89 out of these had been issued following due protocol.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile former Defence Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Gotabaya+Rajapaksa&amp;x=11&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Gotabaya Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a> was yet again summoned by the commission today for questioning.<\/p>\n<p>He had been questioned regarding the alleged use of personnel attached to the Civil Security Department for political campaigning activities during the last Presidential Election.<\/p>\n<p>Rajapaksa is also to be questioned by the commission about using around 500 employees of Rakna Arakshaka Lanka Limited (RALL), a state-owned institution, for political campaigning, a commission member said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":151061,"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-151049","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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