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politicians, officials face bribery charges
Commissioner Kingsley Wickremasuriya told The Sunday Times that investigations had been resumed this week after some 18 months and the Commission would also submit to the Attorney General files of persons connected in more than 100 cases which it could not proceed with due to the absence of a Commissioner since February last year. He said, among those to be considered for indictment were 18 police officers, five forest department officials, four Justice Ministry officials, an Assistant Controller for Explosives in the former Interior Ministry and an Agrarian Service Assistant Commissioner. Mr. Wickremesuriya said that with the reactivation of the commission they had also started raids. In one of the first raids, two police officers attached to the Nochchiyagama area were arrested while allegedly accepting bribes on Friday morning. Mr. Wickremasuriya said it would take at least two years to clear the backlog caused by the absence of a Commissioner. The Sunday Times learns that more than 1200 complaints were pending at the Commission while no new investigations were launched during the past one and a half years. |
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