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COLOMBO: A cabinet minister in crisis-hit Sri Lanka was convicted on Monday of extorting money from a businessman over a land deal, a rare guilty verdict in a graft case in the South Asian country.Prasanna Ranatunga -- whose elder brother Arjuna captained the country’s cricket World Cup winning team -- was given a two-year suspended prison sentence and fined 25 million Sri Lankan rupees ($68,500).He is currently the urban development minister and was previously responsible for tourism, before a brief spell as public security minister.Sri Lanka ranks 102nd out of 180 countries in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index for 2021, but it is extremely rare for senior Sri Lankan

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