Minister of Media Gayantha Karunathilleke said that it is proposed to set up a ‘Serious Fraud Office' to fight corruption and until such the Office is set up, the government had paid its attention on restructuring the anti-corruption institutional structure,

Minister Karunathilleke said that the proposed fully powered Serious Fraud Office in Sri Lanka would be similar to the Serious Frauds Office in the United Kingdom.

Accordingly, the proposal made by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, to continue the operations of the anti corruption committee secretariat which was established in 2015 until such a Serious Fraud Office is introduced, was approved by the Cabinet of Ministers.