Lankan prostitutes deported from Male [November 07 2008]

Five Sri Lankans, four females and a male, were deported from Maldives for engaging in prostitution. 12 other foreigners too were deported after being arrested on various charges.

The five Sri Lankans were deported for life and the others were barred from entering Maldives for 10 years, according to a statement issued by the Maldives Department of Immigration, states agency reports.

One of the expatriates who was deported and barred from entering Maldives was a Sri Lankan man who tried to leave Maldives using a Malaysian passport. Three Bangladeshis and one Sri Lankan arrested on assault charges; and two Indians, one Bangladeshi and one Sri Lankan who were in Maldives illegally were also among those who were deported from Maldives for 10 years. Two Bangladeshis who were arrested on drugs-related charges and for working under a fake work permit were also deported, the statement said.