Anti-corruption Committee Secretariat to continue

23 Nov, 2016

The?Anti-corruption Committee Secretariat is to continue?operations, the Government informaton department said.

The Government said it has paid its attention on restructuring the anti-corruption institutional structure and it has been proposed to establish a fully powered Serious Fraud Office in Sri Lanka which is similar to the Serious Frauds Office in United Kingdom.

Accordingly, the proposal made by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, to continue the operations of the Anti-corruption Committee Secretariat which was established in 2015 until such a Serious Fraud Office is introduced, was approved by the Cabinet of Ministers. (Colombo Gazette)

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