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group behind forged dollars notes? The boy had claimed that he was trying to raise funds to get his father released from jail by spending for the appeal. The boy was reportedly carrying dollar notes to the tune of Rs. 5 million at the time of detection. Kandy HQI, Inspector S.M. Samarakone said the police was yet to recover the software used for the forgery. The suspect, a computer whiz, operated from a studio in the Kandy town, supposedly without the knowledge of the owners. At the age of six the boy who was interested in computers had begun to experiment with them at his uncle's studio in the town. At 12, while the boy was studying in a school in Kandy, his father had been convicted for a murder that had taken place in 1989, while another case was pending in the Kegalle High Courts. According to Police Sameera had wanted help to get his father released from jail, for which an appeal was pending. After his father had been sentenced to a life term the boy had had to face many incidents, beginning with the taunts of his pals at school which made him leave it before sitting the GCE O/Level exam. He had told his mother that his father had to be taken out of Bogambara jail where he was serving the sentence, but his mother who was running a small studio in Hedeniya had lacked the finances to fight the case. She had then decided to sell the house and land in Niyangoda owned by her father but Sameera had not approved it. The boy who had gained computer literacy after following a formal course was working with his uncle at the latter's studio after his father had been sentenced to jail. He made many friends of his age mainly because of his computer wizardry. According to police he had first asked a friend for a 100 dollar note and then experimented on printing a forged note. One of his close friends who had known about it had tipped off the anti-vice squad which had nabbed him close to the Kandy clock tower when he was waiting to transfer the notes to another party, whom the police are currently following. According to police the forged notes were almost identical to the genuine dollar notes and had been printed on single sheets, instead of the two sides of the note being pasted together, as is done by other forgers. Police are also investigating as to how this boy had obtained printing paper for the notes as they are usually imported only by leading studios. Police said their main investigation will be to ascertain whether the boy was part of a major organised racket printing fake dollar notes and distributing them. |
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