{"id":162125,"date":"2016-05-11T13:40:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T08:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=162125"},"modified":"2016-05-11T13:43:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T08:13:18","slug":"bribery-commission-files-case-against-sajin-vass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/bribery-commission-files-case-against-sajin-vass\/","title":{"rendered":"Bribery Commission Files Case Against Sajin Vass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commission to Investigate allegations of Bribery or Corruption filed a case today against controversial figure and one time loyalist of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Sajin+Vass+Gunawardena&amp;x=8&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sajin de Vass Gunawardena<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54794\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-dodgy-police-complaint-to-axe-frederica-jansz\/sajin-vass-gunewardena\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54794\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54794\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-54794\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Sajin-Vass-Gunewardena-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Vass\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Sajin-Vass-Gunewardena-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Sajin-Vass-Gunewardena-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-54794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vass<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Commission has filed a case over Gunawardena\u2019s failure to declare his assets during several years including in 2011 and 2012. Incidentally, the charges comes just days after Gunawardena told a news conference in Colombo that he has declared all his assets, and if he had not, by now he would be behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>When the case was taken up today before the Colombo Additional Magistrate, Gunawardena\u2019s lawyers requested the court for time to obtain necessary papers. The Case will be taken up again in September this year.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Gunawardena said that if the accusations leveled against him by some politicians were true about him acquiring his wealth in an unscrupulous manner, then he would be behind bars by now. \u201cI have submitted all my asset details and my accounts and how I earned my money to the relevant authorities. Everything is transparent. Everyone thinks I got money by stealing, but that is not true. If I had not submitted these information by now, then I would be in jail by now,\u201d he told a media conference on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":54794,"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-162125","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bribery Commission Files Case Against Sajin Vass - 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\/bribery-commission-files-case-against-sajin-vass\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bribery Commission Files Case Against Sajin Vass - 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