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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Ecstasy Drug Bust: Narcotics Officers Nab Computer Professional With 5000 Pills
May 16, 2017
Narcotic officers attached to the Department of Excise in Sri Lanka made
a major breakthrough last night, when they arrested an Information
Technology Security Head of a leading Systems Management Company and
busted a haul of over 5000 ecstasy pills in his possession, Colombo
Telegraph reliably learns.
The nabbed quantity of the drug is estimated to have a street value of
over Rs 15 million with each pill been sold out in the open at Rs 3000
each.
The apprehended Information Technology Professional hailing from a
reputed Systems Management company located in High Level Road
Kirulaponne, would be produced in court today.
According to sources within the Excise Narcotics Division, the drug
ecstasy, which is now rampantly been circulated in Colombo, Down South
and even in Kandy is been sold mainly to the youth of Sri Lanka.
In 2010, quoting a former Sri Lankan security services official, the
then US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Patricia Butenis informed Washington that drug kingpins in Sri Lanka had
political patrons in the government and enjoyed certain privileges when
carrying out their drug deals. Chief among them highlighted by her was
Mervyn Silva, a former Minister of Labour during the Mahinda Rajapaksa
led government era. His son, Malaka Silva, was suspected of trafficking
the drug “ecstasy” mainly in night clubs in Colombo.
Meanwhile on the 9th of May a Police Constable, Chaminda
Abeywickreme was killed and Police Inspector M. Neomal Rangajeewa and
Constable Chaminda of the Police Narcotic Bureau were injured, when
gunmen apparently opened fire at them whilst conducting a raid in
Piliyandala.