Law & Order
Gayan Kumara Weerasinghe
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Officers of the Colombo Fraud Investigation Bureau have arrested an Assistant Manager working for the National Insurance Trust Fund (Agrahara) who has allegedly defrauding nearly Rs.6 million (5,746,541) by submitting fake documents.
The Assistant Manager is a 33-year-old resident of Raigama, Bandaragama. She has prepared fake documents and cheated this money which has been credited to five bank accounts of her relatives including her mother, father, brother-in-law, mother’s sister, and husband. Investigations have also revealed that Mothers’s sister and her husband are also Police officers.
The Colombo Fraud Investigation Bureau stated that the fraud was committed on 13 occasions from 2018 to the first quarter of 2022 by crediting the money to those bank accounts.
The Human Resources and Administration Manager of the National Insurance Trust Fund has complained about this fraud to the Colombo Fraud Investigation Bureau after this it was revealed during an internal audit. According to the complaint, an investigation was conducted and the suspect was arrested. In the future, action will be taken against her family members involved in this fraud.
Thursday, November 10, 2022 – 01:25
