FRAUD OF 7MN AT ANURADHAPURA MUNICIPAL COUNCIL DETECTED

Three officers serving in the Anuradhapura Municipal Council had been interdicted with immediate effect by the Anuradhapura Municipal Commissioner Sampath Rohana Dharmadasa, for allegedly defrauding Rs. 7 million of council funds collected as municipal rates.

The subject clerk Sisira Palitha Bandara and officers A. P. Dissanayake and A. E. Sarathchandra of the municipality had been interdicted accordingly.

It had been revealed that the rates collected from householders over a considerable period of time had been allegedly defrauded without crediting it to the council account.

Noticing a shortfall in the incomes derived from taxation by the Municipal Council the Commissioner had discreetly made inquiries and acting on an anonymous petition sent by a rate payer, he had conducted a full scale investigation, which led to this discovery, sources

It had been revealed that the rates collected from households over a considerable period of time had been allegedly defrauded without crediting it to the council account.

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Commissioner Dharmadasa confirmed that an amount exceeding Rs. 7 million had been defrauded by the suspects, and he had received further information regarding another ten employees of the council involved in this fraud.

He affirmed that the documents relating to this massive fraud had been taken over by him, and a special investigation would be made and those found guilty would be severely dealt with.