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29 March 2024

Woman manager stages fake bank robbery

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By Corresponden

A woman Sri Lankan manager from a rural bank in Ja-ela, a Colombo suburb, was the brain behind the fake robbery of jewellery worth over Rs20 million from the bank, ‘The Island’ newspaper reported.

With the assistance of her nephew and a notorious criminal, she had staged the fake robbery, police said.

According to a complaint lodged with the Ja-ela police, the alleged robbery took place on  January 30 at Madama Junction, Ekala, Ja-ela.

After Sergeant Sudath Gunawardena of the Negombo District Crimes Detection Bureau(NDCDB) received a tip off that the robbery was staged to cover the pawning of fake gold jewellery to the bank by her nephew over a long period of time, the NDCDB took over the investigations.

They had staged the fake robbery to prevent the fake gold jewellery from being discovered. The person who acted as the robber was a notorious criminal from Ratnapura, police said.

This notorious person is in remand custody at the Kuruwita prison for four rape cases and for throwing acid on a person.

Investigators got the details of the robbery from the man in remand by using of  decoy and have recovered part of the loot. Jewellery worth Rs4 million had been given to the notorious criminal as his share from the robbery.

The manageress and her nephew had gone to the bank with the notorious criminal on the day of the fake robbery and placed all the jewellery in a bag carried by the criminal by opening the safe.

The manageress then pretended to have fainted after being being assaulted by robbers.

Along with her nephew, she had paid Rs2.8 million, out of Rs10 million obtained, to two job agents to find them jobs abroad but the recruitment agents had vanished with the money. 

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