The Colombo Crimes Division arrested five people yesterday (10) in connection with an organized racket of buying vehicles with outstanding lease installments with the promise of continuing the lease and selling those vehicles at low prices after advertising on the internet.
Investigations have revealed that these traffickers are buying and selling vehicles with arrears of lease installments using a national identity cards belonging to others.
The uncovering this longtime racket had been made possible when the mother of the person who is used by these traffickers to buy and sell vehicles made a complaint to the Inspector General of Police (IGP).
The IGP had assigned it to the Colombo Crimes Division to investigate.
The mother had told the Police that her son’s national identity card had been missing for some time. She had said that someone is selling vehicles using that national identity card and after people complained to the Police, they came looking for her son.
According to an order given by the IGP to investigate the complaint of this woman, Colombo Crime Division had started an investigation in this regard. It had been revealed that this smuggling is being organized by a group involved in drug trafficking.
These five suspects had been produced before the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court and were detained for seven days on detention orders. According to the information revealed during the investigation, a lorry, two three-wheelers and a car were also found, which were sold by these suspects using fraudulent documents.
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