A complaint to the Bribery & Corruption against the officers in the Consumer Affairs Authority

- Oct 06, 2015

A complaint has been lodged in the Bribery and Corruption Investigation Commission against the officers of the Consumer Affairs Authority for acquiring bribe. The complaint has been lodged by the chairman of the National Campaign to Protect the Consumer Rights and the chairman of the National Campaign for “Daruwanta hetak” Asela Sampath.

The complaint has been lodged against the former director general of the consumer affairs authority J.M.A. Douglas, finance director W.M. Priyantha, human resource director K.R.A Sampath Angulugaha, and deputy director (preventive) W.M.A.K. Bandara, Abdul Azeez Gaffoor, W.M.P. Wijesinghe citing as respondents.

The complaint was lodged against these people above for travelling overseas through an influence of a sponsor who has been accused for importing low quality products and while a case against him is in process. The complaint party considers this as a bribe and demanded the Bribery and Corruption to start an investigation.

The complaint has cited that it is suspicious that six people in the consumer affairs authority travel overseas at the same time and have they taken any prior permission before travelling overseas and if there is a permission granted it is uncertain under what basis the permission was given. Therefore the national campaign to protect the consumer rights and the Campaign for “Daruwanta Hetak” urge the Bribery and Corruption to conduct an investigation regarding this.