Central Bank peon who played a game from Rs. 5000 notes .... caught!

Central Bank peon who played a game from Rs. 5000 notes .... caught!

There is a methodology in operation by the Sri Lanka Central Bank where cash notes which become disfigured and are beyond use as a result of public use are collected and are destroyed from time to time. After instructions are issued to destroy these notes they are properly counted and and are bundled separately after which they are directed

to the location where they are to be destroyed.

During the period the above-said proceedings are in operation, a peon or office assistant who had the permission to enter the place where these cash bundles were retained had been involved in a racket of stealing Rs. 5000 notes once and again by flicking them from the middle of the bundle and the racket has been going on for a period of time, it was reported. After this cash is robbed that way and the bundles of money are not subjected to check after that, the peon concerned has been able to carry out his operation by closing the eyes of the bank authorities for quite some time.

Whatever it is, because of a suspicious situation that took place in the recent past the bank officials have instructed the police to carry out an investigation about the said employee. As such, on court orders that were secured by the police they had surveyed the CCTV cameras situated close to the door of the relevant unit and to check the bank accounts of the peon. What was revealed at that point was that a particular office assistant had been going to the room concerned in a suspicious manner as was noted on the scenes thus revealed. The police had also surveyed how money is being credited to his bank account the very next day after that particular office assistant was observed going into that room. In this manner this employee had robbed over Rs. 24 lakhs from the Rs. 5000 notes which were discarded from use for a period of time.

On the interrogation conducted by the police he had admitted that he had been flicking cash notes from the middle of the bundle and that he was aware that on the final checking it is only the beginning and last numbers would be checked, which motivated him to do this robbery. The suspect was produced before courts yesterday and the magistrate ordered that he be remanded till the next 22nd. The courts further ordered that other bank accounts of his be checked and also to make a check on others who were permitted to gain entry to the relevant unit of the Central Bank.