ACS receives more complaints of misuse of public funds

SUNDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2016

434 more complaints related to misappropriation of public funds during the previous regime have been received by the Anti-Corruption Secretariat (ACS) and 317 of them have been already submitted to the FCID for investigations says the Director of ACS Ananda Wijepala.

He said 28 of the complaints have been sent to the CID and 85 to the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption and seven were sent to the IGP’s office.

Mr. Wijepala says the complaints receive by the Secretariat are examined by an official from the Attorney General’s Department before they are sent to the FCID, the CID and the Bribery Commission.

He said powerful politicians of the previous regime have been accused of misappropriations that had taken place in various institutions.