Two arrested with counterfeit notes
Two individuals who had arrived on a bike were arrested by the Police Special Task Force (STF) for the possession of nine counterfeit Rs 5000 and Rs 1000 notes each, during the inspection of vehicles close to the 27th Km post along the Mannar- Madhawachchi main road, the Police Media Unit told Ceylon Today Online.
A quantity of gems worth over Rs. 20 million that was brought from a gem polishing and selling centre in Beruwala to be displayed to a Chinese national arriving at a Colombo hotel had gone missing.
Sunday, 29 Sep 2013
Two individuals who had arrived on a bike were arrested by the Police Special Task Force (STF) for the possession of nine counterfeit Rs 5000 and Rs 1000 notes each, during the inspection of vehicles close to the 27th Km post along the Mannar- Madhawachchi main road, the Police Media Unit told Ceylon Today Online.
The suspects who were arrested at the location have been handed over to the Settikulam Police.
The STF officers of the Ganeshapuram area conducted the raid based on a tip off.
Following interrogations the suspects have revealed information with regard to the chief suspect and his residence, while three counterfeit Rs 5000 notes and 60 counterfeit notes of Rs1000 have also been seized from the residence.
The suspects have been identified as 28 year old and 33 year old residents of the Settikulam area.
The suspects are due to be produced before Courts today. (Ceylon Today Online)
By Premalal wijeratne -Sunday, 29 Sep 2013
A quantity of gems worth over Rs. 20 million that was brought from a gem polishing and selling centre in Beruwala to be displayed to a Chinese national arriving at a Colombo hotel had gone missing.
This centre at Beruwala was launched by a French national to provide employment to groups who were displaced by the Tsunami.
The French national had dispatched the parcel containing 46 gems through an employee of the centre on 26 September, but the Chinese national to whom the gems were to be shown had not met the employee, according to the police.
Since the Chinese national was not met , the employee had then carried the parcel of gems to a branch of the same centre located in Bambalapitiya where this parcel had gone missing , the Bambalapitiya police which is conducting investigations revealed.
The Bambalapitiya police had interrogated two suspects in connection with this loss, and further investigations are proceeding.
The Beruwala police had forwarded a complaint made by the French national in this regard to the Bambalapitiya police.(Ceylon Today Online)
