Officers from the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption have arrested an accountant and a management assistant attached to the Mullaitivu District General Hospital over a Rs. 30,000 bribe demand, Ada Derana reported on Saturday.
The arrests were made on Friday following a complaint lodged by a businessman who holds a tender to wash and clean bed linen at the hospital. According to the complaint, the two officials demanded the bribe to release a cheque covering the March payment due under the contract.
The suspects are scheduled to be produced before the Mullaitivu Magistrate’s Court.
The case is the latest in a wave of CIABOC enforcement actions spanning national and district-level targets. The commission has separately launched a probe into Speaker Jagath Wickramaratne and is pursuing Mahinda Rajapaksa’s failure to file an assets declaration, alongside ongoing cases against former minister Kapila Chandrasena and former SLRC officials.
Mullaitivu, in the Northern Province, is among the poorest districts in Sri Lanka with limited private healthcare options, making the District General Hospital the primary provider for most residents. Bribe demands connected to hospital supplier payments have long been flagged in Auditor General reports but rarely result in arrests.
