Saturday, June 11, 2016

FCID in a fix

The continuation of the Financial Criminal Investigation Division (FCID) could be in risk if the term of the Anti-Corruption Committee Secretariat is not developed, reports say.

At the Cabinet meeting on Feb. 11, 2015, the Cabinet of Ministers affirmed the proposition made by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe to set up a Secretariat for exploring into substantial scale defilement and acts of neglect that had been accounted for to have occurred amid the past government and to make lawful move against such debasement and misbehaviors and to make proposals to avert such defilement and acts of neglect occurring later on.
Notwithstanding this endorsement was additionally given to set up a Financial Crimes Investigation Division under the supervision of the Inspector General of Police to research into vast scale monetary exchanges including unlawful IRS evasion exercises.





The FCID was set up as far as the procurements of Section 55 of the Police Ordinance, with the endorsement of the Cabinet of Ministers and it works under the select supervision and heading of the Inspector General of Police.

Objections to the FCID ought to be made to this secretariat, which sees to the correct documentation of these cases before guiding them to the consideration of the IGP or to the CID or Bribery Commission for further examinations.

At the present, this secretariat has coordinated 325 dossiers relating to expansive scale debasement, 600 dossiers relating to authoritative issues to the individual establishments.

The term of the secretariat closes on June 30, 2016 and the staff ID prior terminated on April 08, 2016.