Over 70 Vietnamese Nationals Arrested for Alleged Financial Scams and Visa Violations
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Over 70 Vietnamese nationals arrested for alleged financial scams and visa violations
A group of foreign nationals accused of engaging in financial scams while staying in the country in violation of visa conditions has been arrested in separate raids carried out in Colombo and Matara, according to Sri Lanka Police. MORE..
The island is becoming the new hotspot for fraudulent network operations connected abroad. Concern at the top for negative impacts in terms of image, economy and tourism. Police operations have led to the arrest of citizens from Cambodia, China, Malaysia, Madagascar, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Sequested laptops and mobile phones.
Sri Lankan police have arrested 231 foreigners, mostly Chinese and Vietnamese, since the weekend in a crackdown on suspected cyber fraud centres. As reported by AFP, criminal groups committing online fraud operate around the world and defraud their victims of tens of billions of dollars every year, often through cryptocurrency scams and fake romantic relationships, writes TASR.
Sri Lanka arrests 231 foreigners in latest crackdown on cyberscams
Prison guards escort foreign nationals to a court in Kaduwela, a suburb of Colombo, after their arrest on suspicion of running cyber-scam centres. (AFP pic) COLOMBO: Sri Lanka police have arrested 231 foreign nationals, mostly Chinese and Vietnamese, following raids on suspected cyberscam centres in the capital since the weekend, officials said Thursday. Crime groups internationally have carried out online cons, defrauding victims of tens of bil…
A group of foreign nationals were arrested yesterday (06) in a raid conducted by a team of officers of the Kollupitiya Police Station at a housing complex in the Uttarananda Mawatha area of the Kollupitiya Police Division on suspicion of illegally staying in the country in violation of visa conditions and committing financial fraud. The police say that there are 41 foreign male and 33 female suspects. The suspects and the suspects are Vietnamese…
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