{"id":1131,"date":"2026-05-12T05:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2026-05-12T05:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:25:09","slug":"former-president-mahinda-rajapaksa-to-appear-before-bribery-commission-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/12\/former-president-mahinda-rajapaksa-to-appear-before-bribery-commission-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to Appear Before Bribery Commission Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa is scheduled to appear before the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption this morning (12).<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to provide a statement regarding allegations that a bribe of 2 million US dollars was received during the purchase of aircraft for SriLankan Airlines in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the notice had been issued by the Bribery Commission requesting him to appear and record a statement in connection with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Former Civil Aviation Minister Priyankara Jayaratne has also reportedly been instructed to appear before the commission regarding the same matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa is scheduled to appear before the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption this morning (12). He is expected to provide a statement regarding allegations that a bribe of 2 million US dollars was received during the purchase of aircraft for SriLankan Airlines in 2013. According to reports, the notice &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1133,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions\/1133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}