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A Beat Forest Officer has been apprehended by the Investigation Officers of CIABOC on 23.08.2017 when obtaining Rs.5,000/- of bribe for the month of August which has been solicited to be given Rs.5,000/- for each month to abstain from observing and taking legal action against shortcomings of the timber mill operated by the complainant without a permit.

The former Opposition Leader/ Chairman of a Pradeshiya Sabha has been apprehended by the Investigation Officers of CIABOC on 16.08.2017 when obtaining a bribe of Rs.100,000/- solicited to get the approval for a plan of a land of the complainant by getting assistance of the officers of Pradeshiya Sabha.

A Police Sargent has been taken into custody by the Investigation officers of CIABOC on 02.08.2017 for soliciting and obtaining a bribe Rs.10,000/- to release a tree cutting machine taken into custardy for the offence of felling down an Ahetu Tree without a permit and to abstain from taking legal action in that regard and furthermore, to allow to fell down a satinwood tree and tearing-up the same in due course.

The Investigation Officers of CIABOC have taken into custody a Police Constable on 01.08.2017 for soliciting a bribe of Rs.6,000/- in front of the Investigation Officers to abstain from taking legal action against an accident caused by colliding a three-wheeler on a post belonging to the Road Development Authority by retaining the driving license of the complainant and the National Identity Card of the Driver of three-wheeler as a guarantee.

An Army Soldier attached to the Drug Prevention Unit was taken into custody on 31.07.2017 by the Investigation Officers of CIABOC when obtaining a bribe of Rs.6,000/- solicited from the complainant to abstain from taking legal action on a tip off said to be received regarding selling of illegal liquor by the complainant and to allow the business to proceed as usual.

2 years imprisonment for the Grama Niladhari of Haliela Eththudawela.

Rs.1000/- fine for former Chairman of Development Lotteries Board.

Rs.1000/- fine for former Chairman of Development Lotteries Board.

2 years imprisonment for a Watcher attached to the Zonal Education Office – Kegalle.

On 17.07.2017, a Grama Niladhari attached to the Divisional Secretariat - Kaduwela was taken into custody by the Investigation Officers of CIABOC when obtaining a bribe of Rs.3,000/- solicited from the complainant in order to take necessary arrangements to register the names of the complainant and his wife in the electoral register.

On 11.07.2017, the Investigation Officers of CIABOC have apprehended a Police Sargent of Special Crimes Investigation Branch when obtaining a bribe of Rs.10,000/- solicited from the complainant to abstain from objecting to bail out the complainant at the Magistrate Court when the complainant produced to the court with regard to a complaint said to be received by Special Crimes Investigation Branch against the complainant on a financial fraud.