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| Monday, 11 October 2004 |
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Mirihana Special Operations Unit busted a massive illegal Compact Disc (CD) manufacturing and duplicating plant and apprehended a Malaysian businessman. Police seized thousands of illegal CDs containing popular Sinhala, English and Tamil movies including X-Rated material which were to be distributed in the local market. A Special Operations Unit officer told the Daily News yesterday that preliminary investigations had revealed that around eight Malaysian businessmen had been managing the CD manufacturing plant in the guise of a plastic manufacturing plant where they had imported plastic cubes for the process. According to the officer, the factory was fitted with state-of-the- art computerised machinery which can handle every process from moulding to duplicating of CDs without human intervention. Police suspect around eight Malaysians along with a Lankan youth had worked in the factory until the duplicating unit was temporary shut down due to a defect in a machine, the officer said. Police who began surveillance on a tip-off had searched a house believed to have been occupied previously by one of the Malaysian businessmen but the suspect had left the country with 75 boxes containing 1000 CDs each. The other foreign businessmen had left the country following a recent raid by Police in Fort. The Malaysian businessman was taken into custody while the suspect was at a well-known hotel in Kollupitiya. On the directions of the DIG Western Province North, K. P. P. Pathirana, Special Unit OIC Inspector Jayantha Perera is investigating to ascertain whether the suspects had obtained a BOI licence by spurious means to import machinery, plastic cubes and other chemicals to Sri Lanka. |
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