L’ancien pr\u00e9sident du Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremesinghe, soup\u00e7onn\u00e9 de \u00ab\u00a0d\u00e9tournement de fonds publics\u00a0\u00bb, a \u00e9t\u00e9 arr\u00eat\u00e9 vendredi, selon des m\u00e9dias sur place, citant des sources s\u00e9curitaires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
M. Wickremesinghe a \u00e9t\u00e9 plac\u00e9 en garde \u00e0 vue \u00e0 l’issue d’un interrogatoire portant sur un voyage, qu’il a effectu\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres en septembre 2023, pour d’assister \u00e0 la remise d’un dipl\u00f4me \u00e0 son \u00e9pouse dans une universit\u00e9 britannique alors qu’il \u00e9tait chef d’Etat\u00a0\u00bb, ont pr\u00e9cis\u00e9 les m\u00eames sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00ab\u00a0Nous le pr\u00e9sentons devant un magistrat du tribunal de Colombo Fort\u00a0\u00bb, a-t-on ajout\u00e9, pr\u00e9cisant que l’audition portera l’utilisation de fonds publics \u00e0 des fins personnelles. Au retour d’un sommet du G77 auquel il avait particip\u00e9 \u00e0 La Havane en 2023, M. Wickremesinghe s’\u00e9tait arr\u00eat\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lui et son \u00e9pouse, Maithree, avaient assist\u00e9 \u00e0 une c\u00e9r\u00e9monie \u00e0 l’Universit\u00e9 de Wolverhampton. Il avait assur\u00e9 que les frais li\u00e9s au voyage de son \u00e9pouse avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 pris en charge par sa conjointe et qu’aucun fonds public n’avait \u00e9t\u00e9 utilis\u00e9. Selon la police judiciaire, l’ancien dirigeant aurait eu recours \u00e0 de l’argent public pour payer son voyage qui avait un caract\u00e8re priv\u00e9 et ses gardes du corps auraient \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9s par l’Etat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
M. Wickremesinghe avait \u00e9t\u00e9 investi en juillet 2022 pour la p\u00e9riode restante du mandat de Gotabaya Rajapaksa, qui avait d\u00e9missionn\u00e9 une semaine plus t\u00f4t apr\u00e8s avoir fui le pays secou\u00e9 par quatre mois de manifestations contre son pouvoir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
L’ancien pr\u00e9sident du Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremesinghe, soup\u00e7onn\u00e9 de \u00ab\u00a0d\u00e9tournement de fonds publics\u00a0\u00bb, a \u00e9t\u00e9 arr\u00eat\u00e9 vendredi, selon des m\u00e9dias sur place, citant des sources s\u00e9curitaires. M. Wickremesinghe a \u00e9t\u00e9 plac\u00e9 en garde \u00e0 vue \u00e0 l’issue d’un interrogatoire portant sur un voyage, qu’il a effectu\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres en septembre 2023, pour d’assister \u00e0 la […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[163],"class_list":{"0":"post-68441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-monde"},"authors":[{"term_id":163,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"dknews","display_name":"dknews","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f56c36580f44a9d8e8535169273499b7dddc82045bcc254bf7d154ff6b485f62?s=96&d=mm&r=g","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":"https:\/\/dknews.dz","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68441"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=68441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}