{"id":28395,"date":"2025-06-27T19:02:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T13:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=28395"},"modified":"2025-07-04T09:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T03:58:07","slug":"ex-srilankan-airlines-chairman-nishantha-wickramasinghe-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=28395","title":{"rendered":"Ex-SriLankan Airlines Chairman Nishantha Wickramasinghe Arrested\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nishantha Wickramasinghe, the former Chairman of SriLankan Airlines and Mihin Lanka, was arrested this morning (27) by officials from Sri Lanka&#8217;s Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The arrest took place in the Nawala area and is linked to an ongoing investigation into the controversial purchase of aircraft during his tenure. Authorities have confirmed that a statement is currently being recorded from him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wickramasinghe, who is also the brother-in-law of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, has long faced allegations of corruption. The J.C. Weliamuna report\u2014an independent inquiry into mismanagement at SriLankan Airlines\u2014had previously detailed multiple instances of financial misconduct and abuse of public funds under his leadership.<\/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-28395' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=28395&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-28395' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-28395' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-28395' 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-28395'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-28395' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-28395 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nishantha Wickramasinghe, the former Chairman of SriLankan Airlines and Mihin Lanka, was arrested this morning (27) by officials from Sri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":28396,"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":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28395","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\/28395","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=28395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28397,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28395\/revisions\/28397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}