5,000 Vehicles Caught in RMV Fraud Probe, Politicians & Cricketers Named — Is Yours Safe?

Investigators now say around 5,000 vehicle registrations may have gone through the RMV on fraudulent documents, with politicians, cricketers and actors among the names surfacing. This follows earlier arrests this year of RMV staff — including the Commissioner General himself — over chassis-number tampering and fake paperwork, and police have since secured the RMV server room to dig through records. One side says this proves the rot runs deep: if officials inside the department can fake a chassis number or backdate a registration, no buyer can fully trust the papers on any used vehicle, and the only real fix is hard prosecution plus a public way to check a vehicle's genuine history before money changes hands. The other side points out that an ordinary buyer who paid fair market price for a vehicle years ago shouldn't have their registration cancelled or car seized because an official further up the chain took a bribe — go after the fraudsters, not the person holding the logbook now. Have you ever had doubts about a registration or chassis number on a vehicle you bought, and would you back a free public tool to verify a vehicle's RMV history before you commit? ඔබ මිලදී ගත්ත වාහනයේ ලියාපදිංචිය සැබවින්ම හරිද කියලා බැලුවාද?