Police at present (07) arrested 30 overseas nationals who had allegedly escaped from the Welisara Detention Centre and engaged in unlawful on-line monetary fraud operations.
The Mount Lavinia Divisional Felony Investigation Bureau said that the suspects had been arrested whereas staying in a rented constructing within the tenth Mile Publish space of Boralesgamuwa.
Police mentioned the suspects included 21 Chinese language nationals, amongst them two younger ladies, in addition to 9 Vietnamese nationals together with one younger lady.
Police additionally took into custody 10 computer systems, 29 Apple cellphones, web communication gadgets and a number of other different gadgets of kit discovered within the possession of the suspects.
On 2 April, officers of the Felony Investigation Division had arrested 152 overseas nationals over an identical offence, and the 30 suspects arrested at present had additionally been amongst that group.
Nonetheless, whereas being detained on the Welisara Detention Centre beneath court docket orders, the suspects had allegedly escaped custody and had been later re-arrested on this operation.
The raid was carried out following info obtained by Chief Inspector Gamage, Officer-in-Cost of the Mount Lavinia Divisional Felony Investigation Bureau.
Preliminary investigations have revealed that the suspects had rented the higher ground of a two-storey constructing within the Boralesgamuwa space at a month-to-month rental of Rs. 1.5 million and had been working the unlawful scheme from there.
Preliminary questioning carried out with the help of an interpreter revealed that the suspects had arrived on the location just a few days earlier.
Police additional said that not one of the arrested overseas nationals possessed visas or passports.
Additional investigations are being carried out by the Mount Lavinia Divisional Felony Investigation Bureau.
