{"id":163430,"date":"2016-06-04T18:02:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T12:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=163430"},"modified":"2016-06-05T00:01:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T18:31:10","slug":"ranil-wants-a-copy-of-the-black-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/ranil-wants-a-copy-of-the-black-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranil Wants A Copy Of The Black Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst mounting criticism against the government\u2019s failure to take action against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Corruption&amp;x=9&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">corrupt<\/span><\/a> politicians and government officials, Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Ranil+Wickremesinghe&amp;x=10&amp;y=8\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ranil Wickremesinghe<\/span><\/a> has ordered his office to immediately provide him with a list of names containing government officials who have been involved in various frauds committed during former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahinda+Rajapaksa&amp;x=10&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a>\u2019s tenure.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_151519\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/no-scapegoats-we-will-establish-a-truth-commission-and-a-compassionate-council-ranil-wickremesinghe\/ranil-39\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-151519\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151519\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-151519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Ranil--300x280.jpg\" alt=\"Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Ranil--300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Ranil-.jpg 779w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-151519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sources said that Wickremesinghe has requested for a list of officials who possess a checkered career but are continuing to work in ministries, boards, departments and other government owned organisations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Prime Minister has requested for a list of the officials who have been accused of fraud, as well as who have been involved in misusing public funds and other resources during the previous government,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>A special team has been tasked to obtain the names of the corrupt officials, accused of various frauds.<\/p>\n<p>The government came under heavy criticism recently when it allowed former Director General of the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Anusha+Palpita&amp;x=13&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Anusha Palpita<\/span><\/a> to take over as an Additional Secretary to the Ministry of Home Affairs. Palpita is embroiled in corruption charges, and is currently out on bail over the misuse of funds at the TRC amounting to Rs. 620 million which was allegedly used in Rajapaksa\u2019s presidential election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequent to his appointment to the Ministry of Home Affairs, he was suspended by the Public Service Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":151519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","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>Ranil Wants A Copy Of The Black Book - 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