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Last Updated : 2024-04-24 22:26:00
Police have arrested six suspects, including three supervisors of a leading courier service in connection with a robbery of iPhone mobile phones being sent to Sri Lanka via air cargo from abroad.
Police Spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana said around 19 iPhones have been stolen in this manner since last January.
The Police recovered 16 such stolen phones from mobile shops in Kandy, Divulapitiya and Minuwangoda.
During the course of the investigations, the other three suspects who were employees of a man power company believed to have opened the sealed air cargo packs at the Airport at the instruction of courier service supervisors and stolen the iPhones.
The value of the stolen IPhones believed to be over Rs. 3 million.
The suspects were remanded till May 10 after being produced before the Negombo Magistrate.
The scam was brought to light by the Negombo Divisional Crimes Investigation Unit following a complaint.
The DIG urged the public if they were happened to have been victims of such scam, to come forward and lodge a complaint with the police.(Darshana Sanjeewa Balasuriya)
Lanka Shantha Sunday, 09 May 2021 11:31 AM
Well done Sri Lanka Police Force.
janaka Sunday, 09 May 2021 01:52 PM
only catching the small fish , all the big fishers are out and roaming around
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