Colombo Chief Magistrate Thilina Gamage ordered that the suspects who contributed to the illegal act be immediately arrested and brought to court without stopping at the acquisition of the luxury cars that were smuggled into the customs, depriving the government of five hundred crores of tax.
The Magistrate gave this order to the Bribery or Corruption Investigation Commission when the case was called yesterday (01).
It is said that the Chief Magistrate made this order after considering the facts presented by the Secret Intelligence Investigation Unit of the Bribery and Corruption Investigation Commission that out of two hundred luxury vehicles that were fraudulently imported, only twenty vehicles have been handed over to the government.
When the case was called yesterday, the secret intelligence unit had presented a Mitsubishi jeep valued at over six crore rupees to the court.
The commission submitted to the court that this jeep was seized from the person named HLK Parakatella, and although the court had issued an order on September 18 to hand over the jeep to the government immediately, the owner of the vehicle had hidden the vehicle and arrested it. said doing
After the year 2015, luxury jeeps and vehicles were secretly imported into the Sri Lanka Customs and the Bribery Commission conducted investigations to arrest two hundred (200) luxury vehicles registered as normal vehicles imported before 2005 by entering false information into the data system of the Motor Transport Department. does