CID officer arrested while accepting bribe

March 7, 2019 08:06 pm

The Bribery Commission has arrested an officer of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in the act of accepting a bribe today (07).

It was reported that he had accepted a bribe of Rs 80,000 from a businessman at Gonawala in Kelaniya.

The CID officer in question has reportedly told a businessman that a case could be filed against him over a cheque fraud committees by an intermediary acquainted to him.

This intermediary has been a tie-up between the said businessman and the company from where he makes purchases.

Hence, the CID officer has solicited a bribe of Rs 100,000 from the businessman to prevent a case being filed against him.

He had received Rs 20,000 of the bribe on a previous occasion and was arrested yesterday while accepting the rest of the promised bribe.

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