Saturday, April 5, 2014

FIB probes employment racketeer: He sold Namal's name to hoodwink victims 

Kumudu by Upul Shantha
 

A person, claiming to be an acquaintance of Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa, has been taken in for questioning, by the Colombo Fraud Investigation Bureau (fib), over an alleged scam involving over Rs 1.3 million.
 
The suspect is alleged to have Secure Money From Five Women claiming that he could taken for overseas employment through them Rajapaksa MP.
 
Victim A, G. Indrani, a Resident of Elpitiya the Issue Brought to the Attention of the CFIBShe had said the suspect, a member of the Foreign employment Training Centre in Ratmalana had told her to him and she had done so to introduce Four More Women hoping to gain foreign employment.
 
thereafter, the suspect had demanded large sums of Money From All Five Women, promising jobs in Korea, claiming that IT would be done with the Assistance of Rajapaksa MP.
 
Biography at It was that the suspect had been carrying out the scam When using an alias and that his real name is SisiraKumara Dikkumburuge. He had lured the victims to the Official residence of Members of Parliament, in Madiwela, where he had taken the money from them