Sri Lankan police caught a top aide of President Maithripala Sirisena in the act of allegedly accepting a bribe from a foreign investor on Thursday, an anti-corruption official said.
Sirisena’s Chief of Staff, I. H. K. Mahanama, was arrested with some 20 million rupees ($133,000) he apparently received to release state land for a private sugar company, anti-graft commissioner Neville Guruge said.
Guruge said the Indian investor in the sugar firm had complained to the…
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