Yesterday (10) authorities seized a luxury Montero jeep from the possession of a clerk working in the archives of the Motor Transport Department and suspected to have been illegally registered. Sri Lanka Latest News
A senior officer of the Central Anti-Corruption Squad stated that this car was found in connection with an investigation into the vehicles that have been smuggled into the country illegally and the parts assembled and registered illegally. The officer said that only the jeep was taken into police custody. The officer said that an investigation is being conducted to find out whether the jeep has been legally imported and registered in Sri Lanka, and further action will be taken according to that investigation. The officer said that this jeep is a Montero type and has a value of around 2 crore rupees.
The Central Anti-Corruption Force stated that a person involved in a racket of assembling and reparing vehicles was arrested in Kadawata about a month ago, and he is still in remand prison. The Central Anti-Corruption Squad mentions that there were about 250 phone calls exchanged between the smuggler and the officer of the Motor Transport Department.
During the inspection of the house of the arrested suspect in Kadawatha, it was revealed that fake documents were prepared for the assembled vehicles and about 400 vehicles removed from running and submitted to the motor vehicle department and registered and sold by the chief clerk of the suspect registry, the Central Anti-Corruption Squad said.
Letterhead rubber seals used for the smuggling, a stock of forged documents belonging to the motor vehicle department, forged registration certificates belonging to public and private institutions, revenue licenses and fake documents certifying the sale of decommissioned vehicles, public and private A large number of letterheads of institutions, a large number of copies of missing vehicle complaints issued by police stations, a large number of 172 blank payment forms from government agencies, forged rubber stamps belonging to insurance companies as well as rubber stamps of car inspectors were found.
As the first suspect arrested in Kadawata was handed over to the Kadawata Police Station, the Central Anti-Corruption Squad stated that this jeep was also handed over to the Kadawata Police Station for investigation purposes.
The Central Anti-Corruption Squad also states that the Kadawata Police will take further legal action against this clerk after checking the registration information of this vehicle. The Central Anti-Corruption Task Force states that such allegations have been leveled against this clerk before and he has even been suspended for many years. The Central Anti-Corruption Squad further stated that he has been acquitted of all those charges by the court.
