{"id":157724,"date":"2016-02-17T22:10:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T16:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=157724"},"modified":"2016-02-18T02:42:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T21:12:06","slug":"mahinda-rajapaksa-gets-back-to-practicing-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mahinda-rajapaksa-gets-back-to-practicing-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahinda Rajapaksa Gets Back To Practicing Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mahinda Rajapaksa who has donned many hats including that of Executive President and Parliamentarian, was seen back to wearing his black cloak as a lawyer, as he appeared on behalf of his son, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Yoshitha+Rajapaksa&amp;x=13&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Yoshitha Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a> whose bail application hearing was taken up at the Colombo High Court today.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mahinda-rajapaksa-gets-back-to-practicing-law\/mahinda-lawyer-16-feb-2016\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-157725\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-157725\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Mahinda-lawyer-16-Feb-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Mahinda lawyer 16, Feb 2016\" width=\"639\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Mahinda-lawyer-16-Feb-2016.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Mahinda-lawyer-16-Feb-2016-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a>The bail application hearing which was taken into consideration by the High Court will be taken up on February 29, and the court has instructed several FCID officers to appear before court when the application hearing is taken up.<\/p>\n<p>Yoshitha, along with several others including Rajapaksa\u2019s former media secretary Rohan Welivita and former Sri Lanka Cricket Secretary Nishantha Ranatunga are in remand for allegedly being involved in money laundering at the Carlton Sports Network, believed to be owned by Yoshitha Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":157725,"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-157724","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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