The officers of the Illegal Assets Investigation Division of the Police have stopped an attempt to sell a house belonging to Nirosha Nishanthi, at Hillside Estate, Haliwala, Galle who is accused of multi-million rupee fraud.
Nishanthi who was arrested by the Police earlier is currently on bail.
She was arrested while she was avoiding the Police subsequent to allegedly defrauding a large number of people residing in and around Galle.
A large number of people have complained to the Police that she had collected money from them which amounted to millions of rupees stating that she would invest that money in businesses and give them large dividends.
According to information received, she was secretly preparing to sell the house, which is said to have been built by her, with the money collected by cheating people.
Information has also been revealed that this woman threatens people using persons involved in various crimes when they come to ask her to return the money she took. Investigations have revealed that when men come to her asking for their money, this woman brings them inside the house and hugs them and then videotapes the whole thing and scares them. It is said that because of this, many men who gave her money do not file complaints against her.
The 15th birthday of this woman’s daughter had been celebrated last year at a hotel in Weligama.
The facts revealed that 12 popular singers of Sri Lanka had been brought to the birthday party and a grand celebration had been held and even the related video tapes are now in the possession of the Illegal Assets Investigation Division. It has been revealed that she had spent a lot of money on this birthday party and through that she had tricked various people by pretending to be a rich business woman.
It has been found that the fraud committed by this woman had been supported by a group of corrupt Police officials as well as several corrupt Customs officials.
People have been defrauded by this woman by giving her money to the amounts of one or two million rupees.
It is said that among those who invested money in this way, there is a kapumahaththaya of a famous dewala in the south. It has also been revealed that this woman goes to this person to get various charms, appeals to the deity, etc.
Facts revealed that the Kapumahaththaya had even been prepared to mortgage his property after being deceived by this woman, and that this was prevented because several people going to and from the dewala who had already deceived by this woman, had told the kapumahaththaya about it.
A senior Police officer said that the Illegal Assets Investigation Division is currently conducting a comprehensive investigation regarding the fraud committed by this woman and that they are also investigating facts regarding the Customs officers and Police officers who are closely associated with her.
Gayan Kumara Weerasinghe
