Four officers attached to the Gampaha Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) were remanded till September 15 by Colombo Chief Magistrate Nishantha Peiris for allegedly soliciting a bribe of Rs.125,000 from a businessman at the Mahara Magistrate's Court premises.
The Bribery Commission charged that the suspects had demanded the bribe on the undertaking that no legal action would be taken against a Polythene Factory of which the products were not being properly labelled before being released to the market.
The incident was recorded on a CCTV camera in the Mahara Magistrate's Court premises, and camera footage would be used to for the investigations, the Bribery Commission said.
The suspects were Sumith Nishantha, Harshana Kumara, Lasantha Rajapaksa and Charunda Prasad.
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