RMV's Rs 490m Data-Fraud Scandal: 200 Luxury SUVs Smuggled In — Who Else Got Away With It?

Investigators say Motor Traffic Department staff manipulated the RMV's computer system to register luxury SUVs that never cleared Customs properly, in some cases reusing inactive plate numbers left behind by diplomats who'd already left the country. The government's provisional loss estimate is around Rs 490 million, and University of Colombo IT experts are now going through the database. One side says this is proof the whole digital registration system is rotten and every "clean" title needs a fresh audit, not just the 200 flagged vehicles — if a handful of insiders could fake entries undetected for this long, how many more are sitting quietly in private hands. The other side says this is a small, now-caught group of corrupt officers, the system itself works fine, and treating every registration as suspect just punishes honest owners and buyers with more paperwork and delays. Have you ever had a registration or ownership-transfer issue that smelled off, or bought a used import where the documents didn't quite add up? RMV පද්ධතියේ දත්ත කොච්චර විශ්වාස කරන්න පුළුවන්ද?