Srilanka, March 26 -- A fraudulent act of importing 158 vehicles to Sri Lanka under the religious dignitaries' permits have been registered with the Motor Traffic Department by altering the names of the licence holders, the terms of transferring of the licence was revealed by the Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) recently. Even the date of manufacture of 120 of those vehicles had been changed fraudulently.

Responding to a query made by Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) Chairman, MP Aravinda Senarath, Motor Traffic Department's Commissioner General Nishantha Weerasinghe said that an investigation had been conducted against the relevant officer and his service was also suspended during the period of investigation. But, the employee wa...