An Assistant Immigration and Emigration Controller has been arrested on suspicion of forging a foreign passport for Koralagamage Mandinu Padmasiri alias Kehel Baddara Padme, an organized criminal who is abroad.
It is mandatory to obtain the fingerprints of the holder of the passport when obtaining a foreign passport. However, the Criminal Investigation Department says that the foreign passport of Mandinu Padmasiri was issued without fingerprints and it is suspected that the relevant officer who was arrested took the necessary steps for this.
Two other suspects who had taken steps to forge the foreign passport for Padmasiri had been arrested earlier.