The Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has launched an operation to arrest another former Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) who was in charge of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).
The former DIG is reportedly evading CIABOC while the commission investigates allegations that he accepted millions of rupees in bribes from Vijith Thambugala, the owner of Aura Lanka, and notorious organized criminal Nadun Chinthaka Wickramaratne, alias “Harak Kata”.
Although both Harak Kata and Vijith Thambugala have given statements to the investigating units stating that they were forced to bribe the DIG, no proper investigation had previously been conducted against him, despite earlier accusations of his connections with the underworld.
Sources connected to CIABOC say that the former DIG has evaded arrest on four occasions during previous operations and is currently in hiding.
