(November 02, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Sources benefiting from human trafficking confirm that the traffickers are paying up to Rs10 lakhs to the immigration officials at the Bandaranayake International Airport to bypass the immigration rules to leave the country.
The transactions are very sophisticated and well organised and said to be carried out from outside the airport premises. The officers only deal with the organised groups as they are more reliable than individuals.
The illegal trade is said be lucrative business and the government is also knowingly allowing the trafficking to continue.
Most of those leaving the airport clandestinely are said to be Tamils and the government too wants this process to happen to get rid of many Tamils from the country.
A source close to an immigration official said that ‘the lifestyle of the said immigration official is very luxury and no one could imagine he could afford such a living standard with the scale of the salary paid by the government’. -Sri Lanka Guardian
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Airport officials taking Rs1,000,000.00 (US $8,700) bribes
By Sri Lanka Guardian • November 02, 2009 • • Comments : 2
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Not just the lifestyle of the said immigration officials is very luxury and no one could imagine how could Custom Officers afford luxury living standard and financing their children studying in countries like England, USA and Australia with the scale of the salary paid by the government.
This occurrence was happening for a long time. At least for the last 30 years a million Tamils did find their way through the same procedure. It was well known that you have contacts in Immigration and Ari Port to bribe to find your way. Also there are agents at passport office who will issue passports to anyone who pay their bribe. The Tamil Diaspora was created by these people. All these human traffickers managed to get through the so called customs and immigration procedure by these large bribes. They should probe the wealth of Immigration Officers and get them to justify how they hold this unusual wealth. Not only the officers, but their immediate family should also should be investigated for such acquisitions.
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