Chinese youth arrested for stealing Lankan’s woman passenger’s cash

A Chinese national who stole cash from a Sri Lankan passenger on a flight from Dubai to Colombo was nabbed by the Police shortly after the flight landed, Police said today.

The woman employed in Israel after disembarking had left the airport and tried to board a taxi when she realized that her currency, US Dollars 3,660 and Euro 500 and the gold jewellery had been removed from her handbag which had been stored in the overhead luggage compartment.

The woman had complained to the Katunayake police who in turn had examined the CCTV footage in the Airport.

The woman had identified one of the Chinese nationals who had travelled with her on the same flight as a person suspected to have stolen the cash and gold items.

Police tracked the man in a short while to a hostel run by a Chinese woman in Negombo and arrested him and detected the stolen items.

OIC of the Airport Police Mr. Elmo Malcom Pate directed the investigations.

The 25-year-old suspect is due to be produced in court.