Money laundering, extortion frauds: 17 Chinese to be expelled
The Emigration and Immigration Department will
expel 17 Chinese nationals arrested for their alleged involvement in
a series of money laundering and extortion frauds, Department
sources said yesterday. The Criminal Investigations Department has
acted with Chinese Police investigators to arrest the suspects.
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Five remanded for abandoning ship
Galle chief magistrate U S Kulasuriya yesterday
remanded a five member crew, including the captain and the engineer
of a Tanzanian ship belonging to a Japanese national, who had
allegedly reached land at Rumassala, abandoning the ship at sea near
Galle Harbour.
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Lankans among 18 nabbed in Ghana for human trafficking
Security agencies of Ghana and Canada on
Wednesday arrested 18 people, mostly Sri Lankans suspected of
involvement in human trafficking at Thema Port. The agencies have
also detained a fishing vessel, MV Ruvuma believed to be used in
trafficking people from West- Africa coast to Europe.
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