Colombo, Jan. 3 (AP): Police have raided Sri Lanka’s cricket headquarters, seizing accounts and other documents as part of an investigation into allegations that the country’s top cricket official altered a passport for an alleged gangster, an investigator said on Saturday.

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) president Thilanga Sumathipala is accused of violating immigration rules to send Dammika Amarasinghe, who is wanted by police, to watch the 1999 World Cup in England. He is also accused of releasing £1,500 from the board’s accounts for Amarasinghe’s trip to England. “We conducted a raid in connection with some alleged illegal transactions of the cricket board,” said Nimal Kulatunga, the criminal investigations department officer, who led Friday’s raid. Amarasinghe faces trial over several killings and attempted murders, including the attempted assassination of a newspaper editor in 1998. Sumathipala denies any involvement with the alleged gang leader.

Friday’s raid came in response to a court order to seize documents pertaining to SLC accounts at the time of the World Cup.