{"id":29454,"date":"2026-09-04T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=29454"},"modified":"2026-09-06T21:30:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T16:00:40","slug":"namal-rajapaksa-remanded-over-airbus-bribery-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=29454","title":{"rendered":"Namal Rajapaksa Remanded Over Airbus Bribery Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa, who was arrested by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption today (04), has been remanded until September 18 by Colombo Magistrate Asanga S. Bodaragama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Magistrate issued this order after considering the submissions made by Deputy Solicitor General Janaka Bandara, representing the Bribery Commission, and the legal counsel representing the suspect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rajapaksa was arrested following investigations revealing that he had allegedly accepted a bribe of USD 800,000 in connection with the controversial Airbus aircraft procurement deal.<\/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-29454' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=29454&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-29454' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-29454' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-29454' 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-29454'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-29454' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-29454 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa, who was arrested by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption today (04), has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28876,"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":[94,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest","category-smartphones","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29454","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=29454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29455,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29454\/revisions\/29455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}