The Hon. Harshana Nanayakkara, Attorney-at-Law - Minister of Justice and National Integration
The Minister of Justice and National Integration stated that the requested data on cases involving politicians and public officials cannot be provided because the Attorney-General’s Department does not record information by an accused person’s social status, profession, or rank. He explained that records are maintained using codes such as region or offence category, and not in a form that would allow categorization of cases by politicians or public officials accused of fraud, corruption, or homicide.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Mr. Speaker, the answer is as follows.
¶ 02 (a) Due to the unavailability of data, it is not possible to provide answers to questions (i) to (v).
¶ 03 (b) The Hon. Member asks about cases against politicians and public officials categorized under fraud, corruption and homicides. However, when filing and maintaining records, the Attorney-General’s Department does not record variables such as a person’s social status, profession or rank. Records are kept in coded form, such as by region or offence category (for example “child abuse”), not by whether the accused is a politician or a public official. Therefore, data are not stored in the manner necessary to answer the Hon. Member’s question. Doing so would be inappropriate; hence answers cannot be provided to these questions.
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- Hansard, Wednesday, 6 August 2025 ·No. 1755159820030645 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Harshana Nanayakkara, Attorney-at-Law - Minister of Justice and National Integration. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 6 August 2025. No. 1755159820030645. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/17049