Eight Sri Lankan citizens have been arrested by Turkish border police and state security service for attempting to illegally cross the border into the Adjara region.
According to a report in Agenda, Investigators say that the detainees were trying to cross the Georgia-Turkey border aiming to enter Turkey and avoid border control.
The offence committed by foreign citizens is punishable from four to five years of imprisonment.
According to official data there have been 38 cases of attempted illegal border crossings revealed by the Interior Ministry of Georgia in 2016, while 55 such cases were recorded in 2015.
Former Chairman of SriLankan Airlines, Nishantha Wickramasinghe, arrested on allegation of corruption by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has been remanded until July 1 by the Colombo Magistrate court.
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