{"id":203208,"date":"2019-07-07T16:51:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T11:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=203208"},"modified":"2019-07-07T23:00:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T17:30:57","slug":"member-of-the-tripoli-army-gang-to-be-arrested-over-assault-on-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/member-of-the-tripoli-army-gang-to-be-arrested-over-assault-on-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Member Of The &#8216;Tripoli Army Gang&#8217; To Be Arrested Over Assault On Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An army intelligence officer named Lalith Rajapaksa who used to serve in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Tripoli\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">the Maradana Tripoli camp<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, is to be arrested over the 2009 assault on former Rivira newspaper Editor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Upali+Tennakoon\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Upali Tennakoon<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. The suspect&#8217;s fingerprints have been found on Tennakoon&#8217;s car but the suspect has failed to provide reasons as to how his fingerprints ended up on Tennakoon&#8217;s car.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4860\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/upali-t-colombotelegarph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4860\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4860\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/upali-t-colombotelegarph-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/upali-t-colombotelegarph-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/upali-t-colombotelegarph.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Upali<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The discovery of the fingerprints marks a major breakthrough in the investigations into the assassinations and abductions of journalists and editors during the Rajapaksa regime. Probes linked the crimes to a gang of intel officers who operated off the Maradana Tripoli and fell under the purview of Ex Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa .<\/p>\n<p>Coordinating Secretary to the Attorney General, State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne has told the Sunday Morning that the CID has been instructed to arrest the army intel officer and produce him before Court.<\/p>\n<p>The Instructions had been communicated on June 27 to the CID.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":4864,"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-203208","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Member Of The &#039;Tripoli Army Gang&#039; 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