Person caught bribing to bail out NTJ suspect further remanded

Person caught bribing to bail out NTJ suspect further remanded

June 4, 2019   04:03 pm

The person arrested over an attempt to bribe the Officer in Charge (OIC) at the Horowpothana Police to bail out a suspect of the National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ) who had been under custody.

Accordingly, the suspect will be further remanded until the 11th of June as per the order of the Colombo magistrate’s Court.

The suspect who was remanded over the issue was presented before Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne, today (04).

Officials of the Bribery Commission informed the court that investigations on the matter are still ongoing and sought a court order to further remand the suspect.

Considering the request, the Magistrate further remanded the suspect until June 11 and ordered the officials of the Bribery Commission to produce a report on the progress of the investigations.

The suspect, a 26-year-old Mohamed Shifan, is a close accomplice of the NTJ member Abdul Majeed Mohamed Niyaz who was under police custody over the Easter Day attack on the Shangri-La hotel.

Shifan who had agreed to give the Horowpothana OIC a bribe of Rs 500,000 to release the detainee was arrested by the officials of the bribery Commission when handing over Rs 250,000 to the Horowpothana OIC on May 08.

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