{"id":28342,"date":"2025-06-22T20:43:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T15:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=28342"},"modified":"2025-06-22T20:43:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T15:13:46","slug":"police-probe-politicians-over-colombo-luxury-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=28342","title":{"rendered":"Police Probe Politicians Over Colombo Luxury Properties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sri Lanka Police have launched a high-level investigation into a group of politicians suspected of owning multimillion-rupee luxury residences in Colombo without proper financial justification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The probe, led by the Criminal Investigation Department\u2019s Illegal Assets Investigation Division, is focusing on former ministers and influential political figures whose property acquisitions appear disproportionate to their declared income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to senior police sources, the investigation is part of a broader crackdown on illicit asset accumulation and financial misconduct by those who once held public office. Authorities have already gathered preliminary evidence and are expected to question several individuals in the coming weeks.<\/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-28342' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=28342&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-28342' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-28342' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-28342' 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-28342'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-28342' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-28342 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka Police have launched a high-level investigation into a group of politicians suspected of owning multimillion-rupee luxury residences in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":28343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28342","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28344,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28342\/revisions\/28344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}