{"id":178663,"date":"2017-06-14T12:39:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T07:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=178663"},"modified":"2017-06-14T23:48:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T18:18:34","slug":"fcid-arrests-mahinda-rajapaksas-driver-captain-tissa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/fcid-arrests-mahinda-rajapaksas-driver-captain-tissa\/","title":{"rendered":"FCID Arrests Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s Driver Captain Tissa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) has arrested former President Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s driver, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Captain+Tissa\">Captain Tissa Wimalasena<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested last night and the Colombo Chief Magistrate ordered to remand Captain Tissa till June 27.<\/p>\n<p>It was alleged that Captain Tissa had been involved in an illegal transaction,\u00a0violating the Money Laundering Act and misuse of state vehicles. The\u00a0picture below shows Captain Tissa, who has been linked to many murders under the Rajapaksa regime with the alleged mastermind of the Thajudeen murder and Malaka Silva assault,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Yoshitha+Rajapaksa&amp;x=13&amp;y=5\">Yoshitha Rajapaksa<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Cap-Tissa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-154784\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Cap-Tissa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Cap-Tissa.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Cap-Tissa-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":154784,"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-178663","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 - 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