{"id":164586,"date":"2016-06-30T14:08:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T08:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=164586"},"modified":"2016-06-30T14:08:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T08:38:47","slug":"bribery-commission-files-contempt-case-against-namal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/bribery-commission-files-contempt-case-against-namal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bribery Commission Files \u2018Contempt\u2019 Case Against Namal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery and Corruption filed a case against Parliamentarian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Namal+Rajapaksa&amp;x=6&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Namal Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a> in the Supreme Court today.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_156004\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/namal-rajapaksa-to-be-questioned-over-thajudeen-murder\/namal-8\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-156004\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156004\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-156004\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Namal-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Namal Rajapaksa\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Namal-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Namal-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-156004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Namal Rajapaksa<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The case which was filed by the Commission Director General of the Commission, Dilrukshi Dias Wickramasinghe, who claimed that Namal, the eldest son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa had disregarded summons by the Commission, which ordered him to appear before the commission over a case.<\/p>\n<p>The case was filed based on section 20 of the Bribery Act \u2018contempt of commission.\u2019 According to the case filed, Namal had disregarded the summons issued to him by the commission and had not appeared before the commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":156004,"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-164586","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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