{"id":335644,"date":"2020-02-04T11:20:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T05:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=335644"},"modified":"2020-02-04T12:01:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T06:31:10","slug":"lanka-to-probe-airbus-bribe-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lanka-to-probe-airbus-bribe-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Lanka to probe Airbus bribe allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Sunday ordered a comprehensive probe into a multi-billion dollar aircraft purchase involving the national carrier SriLankan Airlines and Europe-based Airbus. <\/p>\n<p>A statement from the Sri Lankan President\u2019s office said the President reacted to the media reports alleging financial irregularities. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon seeing these reports President Rajapaksa immediately ordered officials to initiate a full scale inquiry into these allegations, covering all aspects of the deal and report back to him,\u201d the statement said. The president has ordered a comprehensive investigation into reports of allegations over financial irregularities said to have been committed during the deal between SriLankan Airlines and Airbus SE for the purchase of aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Sunday ordered a comprehensive probe into a multi-billion dollar aircraft purchase involving the national carrier SriLankan Airlines and Europe-based Airbus. A statement from the Sri Lankan President\u2019s office said the President reacted to the media reports alleging financial irregularities. \u201cUpon seeing these reports President Rajapaksa immediately ordered officials to initiate a full scale inquiry into these allegations, covering all aspects of the deal and report back to him,\u201d the statement said. The president has ordered a comprehensive investigation into reports of allegations over financial irregularities said to have been committed during the deal between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}