{"id":166223,"date":"2016-08-08T11:40:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T06:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=166223"},"modified":"2016-08-08T11:40:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T06:10:23","slug":"basil-gets-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/basil-gets-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Basil Gets Bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Basil+Rajapaksa&amp;x=7&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Basil Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a> was granted bail today by the Colombo High Court.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_142087\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sc-shown-basil-rajapaksa-judicially-recognized-to-have-committed-corrupt-practice-at-mulkirigala-by-election-in-1987\/basil-6\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-142087\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-142087\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-142087 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Basil-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Basil\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Basil-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Basil-50x50.jpg 50w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/150;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-142087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Basil<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He was arrested last month by the FCID and subsequently remanded by the Kaduwela Magistrate over charges that he misappropriated state funds amounting to Rs. 33 million from the Divi Neguma Funds.<\/p>\n<p>After the Kaduwela Magistrate refused to grant him bail, Rajapaksa sought bail through the Colombo High Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":142087,"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-166223","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 v28.2 - 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