- CBSL alerts CID after unusual transfer of funds
- Money credited to account by those expecting foreign jobs
Criminal Investigation Department officers arrested a man who embezzled millions of rupees from a large number of people whom he came to know through social media platforms after promising them lucrative employment in foreign countries after being alerted by the Central Bank.
Police said the suspect arrested in Wellampitiya is a 41-year-old businessman. According to a complaint made to the Criminal Investigation Department by the Central Bank’s Financial Intelligence Unit, which observed the unusual transfer of millions of money from a bank account belonging to this person, the CID following investigations had arrested the suspect.
It has been revealed during the interrogations after the arrest that the money credited to his account is from individuals expecting foreign jobs. The Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka submitted the complaint in this regard on October 22, 2022.
The complaint had been submitted in relation to the transactions from April 18, 2018 to October 1, 2022.
CID sources said the suspect pretended to be a woman while contacting men and a man while contacting women on social media platforms and built a close relationship with them and eventually had offered lucrative employment opportunities abroad for vulnerable victims.
CID sources said the suspect only met his victims online and had not met them physically even once.It is said that the statements of several people who were caught in this person’s fraud have also been recorded.
The suspect was produced before the Colombo Chief Magistrate and released on a surety bail of Rs.500,000.
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