Bribery Commission Officers Had Arrested Three High Ranking Customs Officials While Accepting Rs.125 Million As A Bribe

Three High Ranking  Customs Officials were arrested by officers of Bribery And Corruption  Commission this evening while accepting  a sum of Rs.125 Million as a bribe which is believe to be the largest ever bribe nabbed by Bribery Commission.

The three Customs Officers namely Customs Superintendent Sujeewa Prakrama Jinadasa,Assistant Customs Superintendent M.D.U.G Perera and Deputy Customs Superintendent Jagath Gunathilake have been arrested by the Bribery Commission Officers while accepting Rs.125 Million as a bribe from a representatives of a Foreign Company at a selected location in Colombo City this evening.

The arrested Customs Officials were reported as informed a foreign company which supplying  spare parts for Sri Lanka Transport Board(SLTB)  that Rs.1500 million should be required to release a stock of spare parts belonging to the company .The stock of spare parts are for the use of SLTB.

However as the Foreign Company had informed the said Customs Officials that  company has legally not entitled to make  such a payment, the customs officials had promised the company that scheduled payment will be cut off if the company agreed to pay them Rs.150 million as a bribe.

Afterwards the Company Representatives had informed on this to Bribery Commission and per the instructions of the Commission ,Foreign Company had manged to reduce the bribe to Rs.125 million after negotiations held  with arrested customs officials.

Bribery Commission Officers then have managed to arrest the three high ranking Customs Officers While  accepting the bribe from foreign company representatives in Colombo this evening.

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Sudden Fire Broken Out At A Mobile Shop In Colombo

A sudden fire has broken out At a Mobile Shop near Wellawatte (In Colombo City) Junction this morning causing damage to the shop.

The Fire Fighters arrived the scene have been doused the fire successfully according to Police.The cause of the fire has not yet revealed.

Prime Minister Ranil Wikramasinghe To Leave Singapore Today(15) For A Two Day Visit

Prime Minister Ranil Wikramasinghe is due to leave Singapore today(15) for a two day official visit  .The main purpose of this visit  is to get funding and support from Singapore for the proposed massive development programme scheduled to be implemented in Sri Lanka and to attract investors of Singapore to invest here.

During the visit Prime Minister Wikramsinghe is due to hold high level bi lateral talks with Singaporean Prime Minister and few other Major Ministers.

International Trade Minister Malik Samarawikrama will be accompanying Prime Minister for this tour.

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The Term Of 23 Local Government Bodies Has Been Extended Until End Of This Year

The term of 23 Local Government Bodies which was set to end today(15) and by the end of this month  has been extended until 31st of December this year according to Minister of Provincial Councils and Local Government  Faizar Mustapha.

The term of 21 Local Government  Bodies due to end today and term of 2 Bodies due to end 31st of October.

The local government election is scheduled to be held in March next year for 335 local government bodies.