{"id":13875,"date":"2021-04-28T17:32:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T12:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=13875"},"modified":"2021-04-28T17:32:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T12:02:39","slug":"former-chairman-of-the-lotteries-board-acquitted-of-4-bribery-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=13875","title":{"rendered":"Former chairman of the Lotteries Board acquitted of 4 bribery cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Colombo Chief Magistrate Buddhika Sri Ragala yesterday (27) ordered the release of former chairman of the National Lotteries Board Chandrarawansa Pathiraja from four cases filed by the Bribery Commission.<br \/>The Bribery Commission had filed a case against him in 2010 alleging that the government had incurred a loss of Rs. 64 million due to his dealings with companies which had not been contracted to promote lottery tickets.<br \/>However, the Bribery Commission officials stated before the Colombo Chief Magistrate yesterday that the charge sheets against the accused will be withdrawn subject to re-filing conditions as the three Commissioners of the Bribery Commission had not given their written consent to the case.<br \/>The Chief Magistrate granted the request and directed the Bribery Commission to take further action against the accused within three months.<\/p>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-13875' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=13875&amp;comments=0&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='0 Comments'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>0<\/span> Comments<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-13875' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-13875' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-13875' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-13875'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-13875' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-13875 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombo Chief Magistrate Buddhika Sri Ragala yesterday (27) ordered the release of former chairman of the National Lotteries Board Chandrarawansa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-smartphones","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}