{"id":35820,"date":"2014-12-05T23:23:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T04:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=35820"},"modified":"2014-12-06T19:47:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T00:47:30","slug":"resettlement-minister-guneratne-weerakoon-alleges-outgoing-us-envoy-michele-sison-offered-him-a-bribe-of-a-house-in-the-usa-plus-green-card-and-scholarships-for-his-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=35820","title":{"rendered":"Resettlement Minister Guneratne Weerakoon Alleges Outgoing US Envoy Michele Sison Offered him a Bribe of a House in the USA Plus Green Card and Scholarships for his Children."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>Dharisha Bastians<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/archives\/10714\/ussl91712\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10716\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/USSL91712.jpg\" alt=\"USSL91712\" width=\"175\" height=\"59\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10716\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Government Minister has claimed that he was offered a \u2018bribe\u2019 by outgoing US Ambassador Michele Sison.<br \/>\nResettlement Minister Guneratne Weerakoon told a political meeting in Aranwela on Thursday that he had recordings of the discussion, to which the Secretary to his Ministry was also privy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe came to meet me and said I was a skilled Minister. She said I had done a good job with resettlement,\u201d the Minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Weerakoon said the Envoy had asked him to remove military camps in the north.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI answered that it is not my job to do that. President Rajapaksa is the Commander-in-Chief. He will not allow the LTTE to raise its head again,\u201d the Minister revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the US Envoy as \u201cMichele Nona,\u201d Minister Weerakoon alleged that she was involved in pumping money to topple President Rajapaksa\u2019s Government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe told me she would give me and my family a green card and \u2018we will give you a house in the US, your children will get scholarships\u2019. I replied that I was a man from the south and I didn\u2019t want what she was offering,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister said that his experience had shown that this was how foreign ambassadors were buying Government ministers.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate reaction from the US Embassy to the Minister\u2019s remarks and allegations.<br \/>\nUS Ambassador Sison leaves Colombo this weekend for her new posting in New York.<\/p>\n<p>She will be posted as Deputy Ambassador to the UN in New York, where President Barack Obama\u2019s former National Security Advisor Samantha Power serves as Ambassador.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nCourtesy:DailyFT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton35820\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D35820&amp;text=Resettlement%20Minister%20Guneratne%20Weerakoon%20Alleges%20Outgoing%20US%20Envoy%20Michele%20Sison%20Offered%20him%20a%20Bribe%20of%20a...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dharisha Bastians A Government Minister has claimed that he was offered a \u2018bribe\u2019 by outgoing US Ambassador Michele Sison. Resettlement Minister Guneratne Weerakoon told a political meeting in Aranwela on Thursday that he had recordings of the discussion, to which the Secretary to his Ministry was also privy. \u201cShe came to meet me and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=35820\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Resettlement Minister Guneratne Weerakoon Alleges Outgoing US Envoy Michele Sison Offered him a Bribe of a House in the USA Plus Green Card and Scholarships for his Children.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35845,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35820\/revisions\/35845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}