Welikada OIC Remanded Over Alleged Bribery Bid

COLOMBO (News 1st): The Officer-in-Charge (OIC) of the Welikada Police has been remanded until 09 June. 

He was remanded after being produced before the Colombo Chief Magistrate's Court today by officers of the Central Crimes Investigation Bureau.

He was arrested yesterday morning in connection with an incident of attempting to solicit a bribe to unlawfully return the passports of 19 Chinese nationals, who were staying in the country illegally and had been taken into police custody in Rajagiriya, outside of legal procedures.

Based on a complaint received by the Inspector General of Police (IGP), a team of officers from the Central Crimes Investigation Bureau arrested him in Veyangoda.