Viyannalage Jayasinghe vs. The Director General Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption – CA HCC/311/2015-2022

In the case between Viyannalage Jayasinghe and the Director General Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption and the Attorney General, the court addressed whether the prosecution had successfully proven beyond reasonable doubt that the accused acquired property through bribery, focusing on discrepancies in asset values and the accused’s purported income. It was held that the conviction could not be sustained as the prosecution failed to reconcile critical evidentiary discrepancies and the accused had sufficiently substantiated, on a balance of probabilities, the adjustments reducing the alleged unexplained assets to a negligible amount. The principle reaffirmed is that criminal convictions under anti-bribery statutes require proof beyond reasonable doubt, and any mate