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State prosecutor under probe by corruption commission
By Ayesha R. Rafiq
The Bribery and Corruption Commission has launched an investigation into allegations against a very senior state prosecutor in the Attorney General's Department.

Both Attorney General K.C. Kamalasabeysan PC and Bribery and Corruption Commission Chairman Ananda Coomaraswamy refused to admit or deny the fact that an investigation has commenced against this officer on charges of corruption under the Bribery Act.

Files have been called for from the Attorney General three weeks ago. The Commission is, however, yet to receive the files from the Attorney General despite having asked for them three weeks ago. Sources said that this could be due to the fact that the files required were large and had to be assembled and photocopied.
The Commission is investigating allegations that a former state counsel who later reverted to the private bar was involved in an immigration and human smuggling scam.

Senior lawyers of the Attorney-Gerenal’s Department had last year complained to the Attorney General and reiterated complaints made by the Criminal Investigations Department that there was a 'peculiar pattern' of discharging cases, especially those connected with immigration and human smuggling due to what was termed 'lack of evidence.'

Despite foreign immigration authorities contacting the AG's Department and agreeing to give evidence in certain instances the accused had been expeditiously discharged from court proceedings.

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