Army deserters posing as Interpol officials arrested

W.C. Fernando, Puttalam Group correspondent and E.C. Fernando, Munneswaram group corr.

Six army deserters who posed as Interpol officials and swindled money from a woman who has just returned from Dubai were arrested by a special Police team attached to the Chilaw Police station yesterday.

According to Chilaw Police sources, the army deserters have arrived at her house in a land rover with State emblem a few days after she returned from Dubai where she worked for a number of years.

The suspects have informed the woman that they have received information about her involvement in a jewelery theft in Dubai and wanted to search the house. They have collect all her jewelery worth over a million and left the house saying that the jewelery had to be kept under their custody till the investigations are over.

The woman has also been informed to meet them in Colombo. These suspects have scared the woman in trouble and demanded gratification from her to close the case. She has given Rs. 400,000 to these fake officers.

The Police took immediate action after she brought this matter to the Chilaw SSP through a lawyer.