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.

Police Constable (PC43903, Dompe Police Station), Jayawardana Mudiyanselage Nimal Ratnayaka resident of No.165 D, Belummahara, Polhena Junction, Delegoda, pleaded guilty on 01 to 08 counts of the indictment served against him by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption for accepting a bribe of Rs.5,000/-, the balance amount of the total bribe of Rs.10,000/- solicited from the complainant, Withanage Dinesh Chandana resident of No.320, Kumbalvilawatta, Dompe to refrain from taking legal action against the offence of possessing of cannabis with the complainant.

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.

Omalpe Dayaratne, served as a Management Assistant of Land Reclamation Commission of Ratnapura was convicted guilty on charges of soliciting and accepting a bribe of Rs.5,000/- from a complainant of Watapatha, Kiribadgala to draft a letter in order to prepare a legal deed for a state paddy land possessing by the complainant.

A Supply Assistant of Ceylon Electricity Board – Ratnapura Branch, Wijekoon Mudiyanselage Sumanasekera was convicted guilty on 12.06.2020 in a court case proceeded under the prosecution of CIABOC based on an assets investigation conducted on an anonymous complaint received by the Commission.

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.

An awareness program aimed on the aspects of Bribery law and Prevention of Bribery & Corruption from Sri Lanka was held on 2020/01/24 at the Ratnapura District Secretariat for the Senior Public Officers of Ratnapura District. Additional District Secretary of Ratnapura ; Miss G.D.L Udaya Kumari chaired this program conducted throughout 5 hours successfully. This program took place as a result of the mutual collaboration of CIABOC and East West NGO.