LRC Director, Field Officer nabbed for Rs.3.6m fraud [August 05 2014]

The Director of Kurunegala and Trincomalee District Land Reforms Commission and a Field Officer who fraudulently earned Rs.3.6 million from a businessman promising a land belonged to a religious establishment were arrested by the Police Special Investigation Unit (SIU) yesterday, the police said.

The LRC officials had promised to transfer a 150 acre land belonging to Kandy Vishnu Devalaya to a businessman in Moratuwa by order of President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

The arrested suspects were produced before Colombo Chief Magistrate and remanded. OIC SIU Sub Inspector Ajith Senanayake and the team are conducting investigations.