An individual who had swindeled money from locals promising them jobs in hotels in Germany was arrested by the Foreign Employment Bureau (FEB) Investigation Unit in Ampara and is due to be produced in courts, today, a spokesman for the FEB said.
The Bureau had received information that the individual was trying to flee the country.
The man had offered jobs to two individuals if they agreed to pay Rs. 2 million and collected an advance of Rs. 1.1 million.
The man claimed he had contacts with the Prime Minister’s Secretary and Cabinet Ministers, and that he was a close friend of Higher Education Minister Wijeyadasa Rakapaksha’s brother-in-law, in an attempt to gain the confidence of his victims.
The Committee on High Posts has approved the nomination of Former Air Force Commander Air Chief Marshal (Retd.)
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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