On 02nd April 2025, Colombo High Court No. 01 Judge Adithya Patabendige sentenced the former Chief Minister of the North Central Province S. M. Ranjith Samarakoon who committed the act of corruption in terms of Section 70 of the Bribery Act through malpractices in ordering fuel to his personal secretary’s vehicle while he was serving as the Chief Minister of the North Central Province.

Gode Vithanage Anusha Sanjeewanie Senanayake was sentenced for the charges of offering one hundred and fifty thousand rupees to a Chief Inspector (CI) of the Awissavella Police Station (Complainant) as an inducement for filing the case against her for the offence of keeping cannabis instead of smuggling them. The case was filed under case No. HCB 290/24.

Ramawickrama Gamarachchige Ruwan was sentenced for the charges of soliciting and accepting Eleven Thousand Rupees from a businessman of Meerigama to release 30 imported CCTV cameras from the International Express Service Branch of the Central Mail Exchange without tax. The case was filed under case No. HCB176/22.

An official worked as a Management Assistant in Immigration and Emigration Department has been convicted under the CASE No HCB 231/2023 for a bribery charge on 20-20-2025 in High Court No 03 before Hon.Highe Cour judge Mr.Manjula Thilakeratne.

Sentencing was imposed on Madumuruththuwage Rattharanage Rupasinghe, a sanitary labourer of Kuliyapitiya Hospital, for charges levelled against him under Case Number MCB-8455/01/2014 for soliciting and accepting a bribe of Rs. 2000/- from the complainant.

The Colombo High Court sentenced three former Customs Superintendents and an Assistant Customs Superintendent to 35 years of rigorous imprisonment each after convicting them to all charges in the indictment the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption served against them on 09.07.2021. They were indicted for soliciting a bribe of Rs. 150 Million and accepting Rs. 125 Million from the complainant of this case, promising to halt the investigations of Sri Lanka Customs conducted on bus spare parts imported for Sri Lanka Transport Board from Steel Impex Industries, India., duty-free, and to release him from paying the duty. The Court further ordered each accused to pay a fine of Rs. 125 Million to the government.

The accused, a resident of Rukmale-Pannipitiya, has attempted to offer a bribe of Rs. 25,000/- in exchange for not taking legal action against the suspects arrested in the raid conducted in relation to illegal earth digging in Bendigama South.

The Colombo High Court, on 26.08.2024, delivered a two year’s rigorous imprisonment, suspended for 15 years to Pradeep Upul Kumara, a resident of Badalkumbura Dodangahadura, for offering a bribe of Rs. 5,000/- to a public servant for abstaining from taking legal action against him for the offence he committed in Ethimale.

The Colombo High Court sentenced former Minister of Disaster Management A. H. M. Fowzie on 27.08.2024 to two years of imprisonment and suspended it for 10 years. The sentence was given for using a Toyota Land Cruiser worth Rs. 19,500,000 belonging to the Disaster Management Center for his personal activities and for obtaining Rs. 1,073,334.93 from the Ministry for its maintenance.

The Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption conducted a raid and arrested a Grama Niladhari of Pelellegama, Ratnapura for soliciting Rs. 15,000/- and accepting Rs. 10,000/- to issue the Certificate of Residence.  Subsequently, indictments were served against him before the High Court.

According to the judgement pronounced by the Permanent Trial- at- Bar after hearing the case against the former President’s Chief of Staff Dr. I.H.K. Mahanama and the former Chairman of the State Timber Corporation P. Dissanayake. Dr. Mahanama was sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment, a fine of Rs. 65,000/- and a penalty of 20 million and P. Dissanayake was sentenced to 12 years of rigorous imprisonment, a fine of Rs. 55,000/-.

An accused of a Bribery case who had promised Rs. 500,000/- and had offered Rs. 250,000/- to OIC-Horowpathana, as a motive to release a suspect who was in remand custody over an allegation of terrorist activities, has pleaded guilty before the High Court of Colombo for all charges.