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Earlier, the Matara Magistrate\u2019s Court issued an order to arrest Basil Rajapaksa. Following that decision, Colombo Fort Magistrate Pasan Amarasekara issued another arrest order yesterday (29). CID Reveals Alleged Misuse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,1,7],"tags":[386,387,284,388,72,73,390,391,389],"tmauthors":[71],"class_list":{"0":"post-3023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local","8":"category-news","9":"category-politics","10":"tag-basil-rajapaksa","11":"tag-basil-rajapaksa-arrest","12":"tag-cid-investigation","13":"tag-mahinda-rajapaksa","14":"tag-newshouse","15":"tag-newshouse-lk","16":"tag-public-fund-misuse","17":"tag-t-shirt-printing-controversy","18":"tag-uva-provincial-council-election"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Basil Rajapaksa Arrest Order Over Rs. 7.8 Million Fund Misuse<\/title>\n<meta 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