Two Ukrainian racketeers nabbed

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Two Ukrainians involved in a large scale fake credit card racket defrauding money from locals and foreigners running into millions of rupees were arrested by Negombo police today.

Police had also recovered Dollar, Sri Lankan rupee and Euro notes worth Rs, 11.5 million, fake credit cards, a data feeding machine, a laptop, 8 mobile phones, 20 SIM cards used locally and internationally, a digital camera, 2 communication devices and some other devices which was in the possession of the suspects who were at a hotel in Ettukale in Negombo.

The two arrested suspects are of age of 28 and 39 years, according to the police.

They had been engaged in stealing money from wealthy persons in several countries and from bank accounts of wealthy people in Sri Lanka as well using fake credit cards.

The suspects were due to be handed over to the CID for further investigations. (W. Hubert Fernando)

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Coconut Donkey Wednesday, 21 March 2012 01:52 PM

unless you know the right people at least..

rumi Wednesday, 21 March 2012 07:03 PM

police is very intelligent in catching these kind of culprits but when any murders and kidnapped happened police is very weak

Adrian Thursday, 22 March 2012 06:01 AM

Let not bet where this money ends up????

MM Thursday, 22 March 2012 07:13 AM

Police like to catch only the foreigners..... NOT Locals...

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