asian drug mafia in SL 4 foreigners with 2Kg heroin nabbed

BY CASSENDRA DOOLE-2016-11-21

Police have made another breakthrough in the foreign drug racket that is cropping up around the island. Four suspects were taken into police custody in Mount Lavinia for the possession of two kilograms of heroin early yesterday (20) morning.
A senior Police officer speaking to Ceylon Today said that investigations were being carried out into a drug racket involving foreign drug racketeers when the four suspects were arrested.

The senior Police officer said that a Pakistani and three Maldivians were arrested with the two kilograms of heroin. Officers of the Police Narcotics Bureau had first apprehended one Maldivian suspect with the two kilograms of heroin and following investigations and interrogation,......the suspect had revealed the involvement of three other foreign nationals.

Speaking to Ceylon Today the Police said the suspects are part of an international drug racket. The four are suspected to be involved in a drug smuggling operation between Sri Lanka and the Maldives. The Police added that the arrested Pakistani was apprehended by Police on a previous occasion on charges of violating his visa regulations. The Pakistani was identified as an international drug racketeer. The four foreign suspects were produced before the Mount Lavinia Magistrate's Court and was given a seven-day detention order.

The Mount Lavinia Police is conducting further investigations into this incident. While an international drug racket seems to be on the increase, the Police assured that this arrest too was part of Inspector General of Police, Pujith Jayasundara's aim to eradicate illegal narcotics from Sri Lanka.