An extortion racket through the web 

Sep 27, 2015

The Criminal Investigation Department is conducting a special investigation about extortion rackets illegally carried through websites. This extortion racket is illegally done by acquiring money from wealthy businessmen’s threatening them publishing internal company business transactions in the websites and demanding money for its removal.

The complaint was lodged by a prominent business organization which was active during the previous regime.

 

Two directors of an organization has lodged a complaint to the CID that another businessmen demanded money from him to remove a report published in a website which has slandered his company.

 

According to the news the website is operated from Sri Lanka and is campaigned by a group of people who published false news during the election of Mahinda Rajapaksa.

 

The website has been identified as “Lanka News Web Today” created by the Pro Rajapaksa stooges who are similar to our website. This group illegally maintains another fake website named Sathhanda.com. The CID during its investigations has revealed that both these websites has been funded and maintained by Yoshitha Rajapaksa.

 

One of the pioneer websites in Sri Lanka alleged us that we maintain the “Lanka News Web Today”. Senior consultant of the foreign ministry Thusitha Halloluwa who was the coordinating this pioneer website lodged a complaint to the CID few months ago and following the extortion incident the truth has been revealed.