A Planning Officer was arrested on 18.08.2020 by the Investigation Officers of CIABOC when accepting a bribe of Rs. 50,000/- to complete the necessary work to grant the approval of the Urban Development Authority to accumulate a paddy land belonged to the complainant and to construct a building on the same.

A Police Constable attached to the Police Narcotics Bureau was arrested by the Investigation Officers of CIABOC when receiving a bribe of Rs. 10,000/- to refrain from arresting a person for consuming drugs and aiding drug dealings, to abstain from taking legal actions against him and to return his memory chip which is under the custody of the Police Officer. The same officer has solicited and received bribe in time to time from the above person.

The Investigation Officers of CIABOC have arrested a civil person on 18.08.2020 when offering a bribe of Rs. 200,000/- to the Officer in Charge, Police Station, Dompe to file a case on a minor offence instead of filing a case for smuggling cannabis against a person who was arrested relating to cannabis business.

A Development Assistant Officer was arrested on 29.07.2020 by the Investigation Officers of CIABOC when receiving a bribe of Rs.5,000/- solicited from the complainant in order to assist in passing the written examination for driving license and to obtain the license without any obstacle.

The Investigation Officers of the CIABOC have arrested the Grama Niladhari of No.177, Wanathamulla and an accomplice on 27.07.2020 when accepting a bribe of Rs.100,000/- to issue a resident certificate.

The Investigation Officers of the CIABOC have arrested a Sub-Inspector attached to Biyagama Police, when attempting to receive sexual bribe which was solicited from the complainant to abstain from filing a case in the High Court and to institute action in the Magistrate’s Court for a minor offence against the husband of the complainant and another person and to release the complainant’s passport which has been kept under police custody.

A Sub Inspector attached to the Women and Child Division of Nugegoda Police Division was arrested on 20.07.2020 by Investigating Officers of CIABOC when receiving a bribe of Rs.5,000/- from a person who was released from a court case proceeded on alleged possessing of illicit liquor. The suspect has solicited the bribe to be paid him in each month in order to abstain from serving fresh case in the court on same allegation against the person released as above. The arrest was taken place when the suspect was receiving the bribe of Rs.5,000/- for the month of July as solicited.

The Inspector of Yakkala Police Station arrested by the Investigation Officers of the CIABOC on a raid conducted on 13.07.2020 while receiving a bribe of Rs.15,000/-. The suspect had solicited the bribe from the complainant of this raid to assist in the court and obtain a lenient order from the case proceeding in the court against the complainant and 04 others.

The officers of CIABOC have arrested a Hospital Overseer of a Base Hospital of Eastern Province when receiving a bribe of Rs.10,000/- of the total bribe of Rs.15,000/- solicited to assist the complainant who is an Assistant of a minor services to get the transfer from the Accident Ward to a Clinic Unit.

A Chena Cultivator had made a complaint to the Bribery Commission alleging a Field Forest Assistant on solicitation of a bribe of Rs.20,000/- to abstain from taking legal action against the complainant for clearing a Crown Land situated adjacent to the complainant’s land. This suspect was arrested on 07.07.2020 by the officers of CIABOC while accepting Rs.13, 000/- as the balance of the total bribe in addition to receiving Rs.7,000/- earlier.

Upon a complaint received by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption on 28.05.2020, the Authorized Investigation Officers of the Commission had conducted a raid on the same day and arrested the Divisional Secretary and the Assistant Director of Planning of the Divisional Secretariat Alayadivembu when receiving a bribe of Rs.300,000/-. The bribe has been solicited from the complainant in order to offer a contract of a development project of 3 by-roads which was scheduled to conduct by the Divisional Secretariat. The arrest has been taken place while the first suspect Divisional Secretary obtaining the bribe, through the second suspect Assistant Director of Planning from the complainant.

The authorized officers attached to the CIABOC have arrested a police officer attached to Palmadulla Police Station while he was accepting a sum of Rs. 50,000 as a bribe in order to provide documents to the complainant.