The Chairman of the National Livestock Development Board has been arrested by the Bribery Commission, a short while ago. 

The Commission's sources said the senior state official was arrested while accepting a bribe of Rs. 600,000. 

The bribe had been accepted by him to expedite lease of a restaurant at the Malsiripura farm. 

The Chairman is expected to be presented in court today. 

He was the third senior government official to be arrested while accepting a bribe, this year.

Previously, President Maithripala Sirisena's Chief of Staff Dr. I.K. Mahanama and State Timber Corporation Chairman P. Dissanayake were arrested while accepting a bribe of Rs. 20 million.