{"id":79641,"date":"2024-08-01T16:15:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T10:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/?p=79641"},"modified":"2024-08-01T16:15:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T10:45:13","slug":"main-suspect-in-club-wasantha-killing-arrested-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/2024\/08\/01\/main-suspect-in-club-wasantha-killing-arrested-in-belarus\/","title":{"rendered":"Main Suspect in &#8216;Club Wasantha&#8217; Killing Arrested in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sujeewa Ruwankumara, alias \u2018Loku Patty\u2019, the main suspect in the killing of \u2018Club Wasantha\u2019 in Athurugiriya, has been arrested in Belarus, according to police sources. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The arrest was carried out by Belarusian security service personnel, the sources said. \u2018Loku Patty\u2019 is an organized criminal and a large-scale drug trafficker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several of his accomplices have been arrested multiple times for attempted murders and possession of large drug consignments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is also the primary suspect in the recent shooting and killing of \u2018Club Wasantha\u2019 in Athurugiriya on July 8, allegedly orchestrating and funding the assassination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sujeewa Ruwankumara, alias \u2018Loku Patty\u2019, the main suspect in the killing of \u2018Club Wasantha\u2019 in Athurugiriya, has been arrested in Belarus, according to police sources. The arrest was carried out by Belarusian security service personnel, the sources said. \u2018Loku Patty\u2019 is an organized criminal and a large-scale drug trafficker. Several of his accomplices have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":79643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1760,5,6,8,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-79641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local","8":"tag-loku-patty","9":"tag-news19","10":"tag-news19-lk","11":"tag-sri-lanka","12":"tag-sri-lanka-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79642,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79641\/revisions\/79642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}