Woman Chief Inspector Varuni Bogahawatta, who served as Officer-in-Charge of the Administration Unit at Kotawila Police Station, has been suspended from service.
Deputy Inspector General of Police Chamika Wickramasinghe, who oversees the Matara and Hambantota districts, issued the suspension order.
Bogahawatta was recently remanded in connection with an investigation into the source of funds used to buy a vehicle and pay its leasing instalments.
Officers from the Criminal Investigation Department’s Financial Crimes Investigation Division had earlier seized a Honda Vezel believed to be in her possession.
Investigators reportedly found that the leasing instalments had been paid by a person suspected of involvement in an alleged fraud involving more than Rs. 1 billion at the Matara Cooperative Society.
