The Kandy Special Crimes Investigation Division has arrested nine employees of a private bank branch on Dalada Veediya over allegations of preparing forged loan applications and agreements, Newswire reported. Six male officers and three female officers were taken into custody on Wednesday, May 13.
The arrests follow a complaint filed on August 28, 2022, alleging that fraudulent loan documents had been submitted at the branch between 2012 and 2019. Police said the suspects are accused of aiding and abetting the preparation of forged records linked to loans approved during that period.
The nine suspects are aged between 32 and 58 and are residents of Kandy, Peradeniya, Katugastota, Pussellawa, Heerassagala, Kurunegala, Pilimathalawa, Haloluwa and Gurudeniya. They were produced before the Kandy Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, where bail was set at Rs. 500,000 each.
The case has been rescheduled for September 23, with the Special Crimes Investigation Division continuing parallel inquiries.
The arrests mark the first publicly disclosed branch-level prosecution of private bank staff for systematic loan-document forgery this year, distinct from the NDB Bank fraud accountability cluster that has driven CBSL system-wide checks on all licensed banks, an Interpol-supported virtual-currency probe and a Court of Appeal forensic audit of NDB internal controls. The Kandy case predates the NDB incident and centres on retail-loan paperwork rather than treasury operations.
Source: Newswire.
