{"id":54657,"date":"2017-08-16T03:33:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T07:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=54657"},"modified":"2017-08-16T04:08:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T08:08:31","slug":"rohitha-rajapaksa-questioned-by-fcid-about-singapore-investor-funding-china-built-supreme-sat-satellite-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=54657","title":{"rendered":"Rohitha Rajapaksa Questioned By FCID About Singapore Investor Funding China Built Supreme SAT Satellite Project."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa&#8217;s youngest son, Rohitha Rajapaksa yesterday said a satellite stationed in the sky cannot be viewed with a magnifying glass &#8211; as suggested by some government ministers. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He made these remarks while speaking to media after giving a statement to the Police Financial Crimes Investigations Division (FCID). <\/p>\n<p>Rajapaksa was questioned today by the FCID over the Supreme SAT satellite project of which Rajapaksa was the chief engineer. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They asked me about the satellite project and how the funds came in,&#8221; Rajapaksa explained. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sri Lanka did not spend a cent for this project. It was a Singaporean investor who invested money and the project was done by a Chinese company,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We went ahead with the project as that was what Sri Lanka needed,&#8221; Rajapaksa said. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Asian Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton54657\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D54657&amp;text=Rohitha%20Rajapaksa%20Questioned%20By%20FCID%20About%20Singapore%20Investor%20Funding%20China%20Built%20Supreme%20SAT%20Satellite%20Project.&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>Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa&#8217;s youngest son, Rohitha Rajapaksa yesterday said a satellite stationed in the sky cannot be viewed with a magnifying glass &#8211; as suggested by some government ministers. He made these remarks while speaking to media after giving a statement to the Police Financial Crimes Investigations Division (FCID). Rajapaksa was questioned today by &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=54657\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Rohitha Rajapaksa Questioned By FCID About Singapore Investor Funding China Built Supreme SAT Satellite Project.&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\/54657"}],"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=54657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54658,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54657\/revisions\/54658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}