{"id":8315,"date":"2023-07-10T08:47:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T08:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/?p=8315"},"modified":"2023-07-10T08:47:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T08:47:45","slug":"foreign-investors-wont-come-as-long-as-there-is-corruption-fraud-bribe-taking-comrade-vijitha-herath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/foreign-investors-wont-come-as-long-as-there-is-corruption-fraud-bribe-taking-comrade-vijitha-herath\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Foreign investors won&#8217;t come as long as there is corruption, fraud &amp; bribe-taking&#8221; \u2013 Comrade Vijitha Herath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking during the adjournment debate in Parliament on the 5th Information Secretary of the JVP and NPP Parliamentarian Vijitha Herath said.<br \/>\nHe said, &#8220;In the past when an investor came, he first checked if Basil was there or not. If Basil was there, he would turn the other way.<br \/>\nAlthough there are many institutions to implement the law, there are many shortcomings in them. However, the more serious problems are that no matter how many institutions there are to implement the law, justice and fairness will not be meted out for the ordinary people through those institutions.<br \/>\nThe economy needs to be fair. One of the reasons for our country&#8217;s economic bankruptcy is that the government has stated that the arrival of investors has decreased. today<br \/>\nInvestors do not come to Sri Lanka; they say they are disappointed and go back. These are things that do not happen without a reason.<br \/>\nThe report of the Human Rights Council clearly stated that the economic crimes committed in Sri Lanka have not been appropriately punished. If economic criminals and economic killers act freely, there will be no fairness in the economy of that country. When investors come to Sri Lanka, they do not see they can successfully carry out their process free of fraud, corruption, waste and bribery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking during the adjournment debate in Parliament on the 5th Information Secretary of the JVP and NPP Parliamentarian Vijitha Herath said. He said, &#8220;In the past when an investor came, he first checked if Basil was there or not. If Basil was there, he would turn the other way. Although there are many institutions to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"entry","9":"gs-1","10":"gs-odd","11":"gs-even","12":"gs-featured-content-entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8316,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8315\/revisions\/8316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}