{"id":162831,"date":"2016-05-23T20:16:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T14:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=162831"},"modified":"2016-05-23T20:18:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T14:48:12","slug":"basils-land-issue-willie-gamage-and-ariyathilaka-dahanayake-released-on-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/basils-land-issue-willie-gamage-and-ariyathilaka-dahanayake-released-on-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Basil\u2019s Land Issue: Willie Gamage And Ariyathilaka Dahanayake Released On Bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rajapaksa loyalists, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Willie+Gamage&amp;x=13&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Willie Gamage<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Ariyathilaka+Dasanayake&amp;x=8&amp;y=9\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ariyathilaka Dasanayake<\/span><\/a>\u00a0were released on bail today by the Gampaha Additional Magistrate, after the FCID arrested them this afternoon over a land deal in Gampaha involving former Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Basil+Rajapaksa&amp;x=12&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Basil Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a>. The land concerned is believed to have been purchased in an irregular manner.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_162832\" style=\"width: 154px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/basils-land-issue-willie-gamage-and-ariyathilake-dahanayake-released-on-bail\/willie-gamage\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-162832\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-162832\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-162832\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/willie-gamage-144x150.jpg\" alt=\"Willie Gamage\" width=\"144\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-162832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willie Gamage<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Magistrate released both, Gamage and Dahanayake on a cash bail of Rs. 50,000 and a Rs. 4 million personal surety. This is the second such case this month where an arrest was made over a land deal. Early this month, Basil Rajapaksa was also arrested but later released on bail, over a land purchased in Matara which was allegedly carried out with some irregularities.<\/p>\n<p>Dahanayake was the former chairman of the Sri Lanka Savings Bank, while Willie Gamage, functioned as both the Chairman of the Strategic Enterprise Management Agency and Secretary to the State Resources and Enterprise Development Ministry.<br \/>\nChat Conversation End<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":162832,"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-162831","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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