International bank fraud: 17 quizzed

by Jayampathy JAYASINGHE

Seventeen persons including six Chinese women and eleven Chinese men were taken in for questioning by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) after an international bank fraud was busted where two million US dollars from the Bank in China had been stolen by the suspects in Sri Lanka.

Police Media Spokesman, SP Ajith Rohana told the Sunday Observer.

A team of Chinese police officials who monitored the illegal operation arrived in the country after notifying the Interpol office in Colombo having found that a gang in Sri Lanka was behind the illegal operation.

Following the exposure the Director CID SSP Mahesh Perera and his team of officers launched an investigation on the fraud and arrested six Chinese women and eleven Chinese men who were allegedly involved in the racket.

The suspects were arrested in Rajagiriya and a sophisticated computer was seized.

According to the Police Media Spokesman, the suspects had arrived in Sri Lanka some time ago on tourist visas and were engaged in the illegal operation.

He said the Controller of Immigration and Emigration would take steps to cancel their visas and repatriate them to China for further investigations.