Bribery Commission receives 1.440 complaints this year

 

From January 1 to the end of July this year, the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has received 1,440 complaints, according to an official of the Commission.

Out of these complaints, 438 bribery or corruption complaints and 58 assets complaints have already been directed for investigation and 46 raids had been carried out on those complaints, a spokesman for the Bribery and Corruption Commission told media

The Commission has had to close 633 of these complaints due to lack of sufficient data. He also said that 225 complaints have been forwarded to other institutions and 38 reports have been called.

Meanwhile, the Investigation Officers of CIABOC have arrested a Divisional Agrarian Development Officer serving Agrarian Services Centre, Pahalagam Haya, Miriswatta, Bentota on alleged soliciting and accepting a bribe of Rs. 25,000 on 25th October in response to a complaint received from a farmer residing at Aluthgama.

The suspect had solicited Rs. 100,000s in order to provide Forest Journals to plant coconut and other crops (minor crops) and he had accepted Rs.15,000 initially from the complainant. The suspected officer was arrested when he had again solicited and accepted a bribe of Rs. 25,000.