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An alleged fraud where a top bank official had siphoned off Rs.67 million belonging to a private bank is being probed, the CID told court yesterday.
Colombo Fort Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne having considered the submissions ordered the Controller of Immigration and Emigration to stop the suspect from leaving the country.
The bank’s chief auditor in a complaint to the CID said the fraud was committed in the issuing of travellers cheques. According to the bank audit reports, the details of the travellers cheque transactions had been deleted from the computer data system.
The complainant alleged that up to now it had been discovered that the bank Foreign Currency Service Unit’s Chief Officer Adrian Asavi had issued travellers cheques worth Rs.8.68 million to eleven people identified as his relatives.
Further inquiry into the matter was put off for June 29.