{"id":162809,"date":"2016-05-23T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=162809"},"modified":"2016-05-23T19:56:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T14:26:47","slug":"fcid-arrests-two-rajapaksa-loyalists-over-basils-land-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/fcid-arrests-two-rajapaksa-loyalists-over-basils-land-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"FCID Arrests Two Rajapaksa Loyalists Over Basil&#8217;s Land Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Rajapaksa loyalists, Willie Gamage and Ariyathilaka Dasanayake were arrested today by the Financial Crimes Investigations Division (FCID), in connection to a land deal involving former Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Basil+Rajapaksa&amp;x=11&amp;y=2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Basil Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_162810\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/fcid-arrests-two-rajapaksa-loyalists-over-basils-land-deal\/willie-gamage-and-basil\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-162810\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-162810\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-162810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Willie-Gamage-and-Basil-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Willie Gamage and Basil\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Willie-Gamage-and-Basil-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Willie-Gamage-and-Basil-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-162810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willie Gamage and Basil<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gamage functioned as the Chairman of the Strategic Enterprise Management Agency during President Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s term. Both Gamage and Dasanayaka had held senior positions at the \u2018Rajapaksa Education and Cultural Centre.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>They were ordered to appear before the FCID to give a statement on a property deal, and were subsequently arrested by the Division soon after recording the statement, today. They are expected to be produced before the Gampaha Magistrate.<\/p>\n<p>Colombo Telegraph will update more information on this shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":162810,"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-162809","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>FCID Arrests Two Rajapaksa Loyalists Over Basil&#039;s Land Deal - 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-arrests-two-rajapaksa-loyalists-over-basils-land-deal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FCID Arrests Two Rajapaksa Loyalists Over Basil&#039;s Land Deal - 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