Former Director General of Bribery Commission Dilrukshi acquitted in
fake audio tape incident created by Avant Guard chief
The University of Moratuwa and the Government Analyst Department have
confirmed, the audio tape of the controversial telephone conversation
between the former Director General of the Bribery Commission
Dilrukshi Dias Wickramasinghe and the owner of Avant Guard Nisshanka
Senadhiphi has been edited. Based on that the Public Services
Commission has decided to acquit Dilrukshi Wickramasinghe, who was
suspended from work on the basis of this audio clip.
In the year 2021, during a long investigation conducted by the
University of Moratuwa and the Government Analyst Department, it was
revealed that the controversial audio tape was made by distorting the
entire telephone conversation. In the year 2019, when this audio was
circulated on social media, the Public Service Commission, which
started investigating the incident, temporarily suspended Dilrukshi
Dias Wickramasinghe on the 24th of that month.
At the time of the incident, she was working as the Deputy Additional
Solicitor General of the Attorney General’s Department. The incident
was a controversial debated issue in the country. But Dilrukshi Dias
asked Avant Guard chief to make public the entire audio recording of
the incident.
Later it was revealed to the media that it was Vajira Abeywardena who
first contacted Dilrukshi Dias Wickramasinghe over the phone. He was
the Minister of Public Administration at the time. It was said that
this telephone conversation was conducted on the basis of a plot by
the minister Vajira Abeywardena and the chief of the Avant Guard and
later they edited and released the audio clip on social media.
It is clear that these two wanted to insult and disrespect Dilrukshi
Dias Wickramasinghe, who was doing her duty very honestly as the
Director General of the Bribery Commission.
