{"id":184678,"date":"2017-11-22T22:46:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T17:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=184678"},"modified":"2017-11-22T23:22:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T17:52:21","slug":"sujeewa-senasinghe-lies-about-phone-calls-with-aloysius-implicates-himself-in-bond-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sujeewa-senasinghe-lies-about-phone-calls-with-aloysius-implicates-himself-in-bond-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Sujeewa Senasinghe Lies About Phone Calls With Aloysius, Implicates Himself In Bond Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Minister of International Trade <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Sujeewa+Senasinghe\">Sujeewa Senasinghe<\/a> in attempting to explain communications with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Arjun+Aloysius\">Arjun Aloysius<\/a>, the man who is at the centre of the Central Bank <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Bond+Scam\">bond scam<\/a>, implicated himself by saying that these calls were to obtain information for a book he was writing on the issue.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_152928\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Sujeewa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152928\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-152928\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Sujeewa-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Sujeewa-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Sujeewa-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-152928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senasinghe<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Senasinghe&#8217;s book was published in July 2015, a year before he was appointed to the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) of the 8th Parliament, established on May 6, 2016. 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