RMV's Own Database Was Wiped Before the Anti-Corruption Raid — Cover-Up or Glitch?

Late last month, the Anti-Corruption Unit raided the Department of Motor Traffic in Narahenpita and found that a chunk of the vehicle registration database had already been deleted. A team of computer specialists reportedly worked through the night to copy whatever data was left, as part of a wider push to trace fraudulently registered and illegally assembled vehicles sitting in the system. One side of this is obvious: deleted records right before a raid looks like someone with inside access knew it was coming and scrubbed the trail, which should worry anyone whose ownership history or chassis details sit in that same database. The other side is less dramatic — government IT systems in Sri Lanka crash, lose backups and corrupt files all the time without any conspiracy behind it, and jumping straight to "cover-up" just adds noise to an investigation that hasn't concluded anything yet. Have you ever pulled your vehicle's record from the RMV and found something didn't match your logbook — wrong engine number, missing transfer, duplicate entry? Tell us what you found and how long it took to sort out. ඔයාගේ වාහනේ RMV record එක logbook එකට ගැලපෙනවද බලලා තියෙනවද?