Financial Crimes Investigations Division of the Police is said to be investigating three suspicious bank accounts containing a total of Rs. 957 million.
The accounts in question are held by three Chinese nationals and is being investigated under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
According to the ‘B report’ filed in court, on March 15, the Financial Intelligence Unit of Sri Lanka at the Central Bank had made a complaint to the FCID citing suspicious transactions in accounts maintained by three Chinese nations at a private bank in Colombo 3.
Thereafter, the Colombo High Court had issued an order to freeze these accounts.
The FCID says one of the Chinese nationals had obtained visa to enter Sri Lanka using false information, claiming to be a translator at an establishment in Colombo 3.
The visas of the other two Chinese nationals are being investigated by law enforcement.
According to the ‘B report’, these Chinese nationals were informed to appear before the FCID yesterday (March 29) to record statements over their suspicious transactions, however, they had failed to do so.
Later it was revealed one of them had already left the country and authorities had obtained an order preventing the other two from leaving the country.
Earlier this year, the European Parliament has confirmed that Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Trinidad and Tobago were on the European Commission’s blacklist of countries at risk for acts of money laundering.
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