{"id":169110,"date":"2016-10-17T11:46:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T06:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=169110"},"modified":"2016-10-18T12:15:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T06:45:10","slug":"rajapaksa-aide-thirukumar-nadesan-arrested-over-basils-malwana-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/rajapaksa-aide-thirukumar-nadesan-arrested-over-basils-malwana-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajapaksa Aide, Thirukumar Nadesan Arrested Over Basil&#8217;s Malwana Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman and close aide of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Thirukumar Nadesan was arrested today morning over the 16 acre land in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Malwana&amp;x=10&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Malwana<\/span><\/a>, allegedly owned by former Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Basil+Rajapaksa&amp;x=17&amp;y=7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Basil Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_164197\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Thirukumar-Nadesan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-164197\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-164197\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Thirukumar-Nadesan-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Thirukumar Nadesan\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Thirukumar-Nadesan-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Thirukumar-Nadesan-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-164197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thirukumar Nadesan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nadesan, who is also the husband of Rajapaksa\u2019s niece, Nirupama Rajapaksa, was the owner of the Malwana land prior to transferring it to Muditha Jayakody<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested when he arrived at the FCID to give a statement with regard to the plot of land, which was ordered to be auctioned by the Court last week.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Pugoda Magistrate D. A. Ruwanpathirana ordered authorities to auction the luxury villa and the 16 acre land in Malwana, after Rajapaksa denied ownership. The villa was built at a cost of Rs. 240 million.<\/p>\n<p>The deed of the land was in Nadesan\u2019s name prior to transferring it to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Muditha+Jayakody&amp;x=9&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Muditha Jayakody<\/span><\/a>, a close associate of Basil Rajapaksa and owner of the Muditha Jayakody architect firm. Rajapaksa is alleged to have given the necessary finances to Jayakody, asking him to take care of all expenses in the construction of the villa.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Thirukumar-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-169173\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Thirukumar-1.jpg\" alt=\"thirukumar\" width=\"639\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Thirukumar-1.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Thirukumar-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":164197,"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-169110","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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