DailyMirror
A con artist wanted for cheating several people by using paper advertisements and promising them loans and financial help had been arrested from the Panadura area, the Police Fraud Bureau told Daily Mirror online.
The suspect, a resident of Anuradapura, had created several fake bank accounts using various identity cards and had told the unsuspecting victims to deposit loan processing fees into the company’s lawyer’s bank account after their requests for loans were approved allegedly by a fake company. The culprit’s modus operandi was to place advertisements in several papers to entice gullible persons to draw them into his web.
The cash was alleged to be a part of the lawyer’s fees which was necessary to get the loan approved. After the cash had been deposited the suspect would withdraw the funds using an ATM card in a manner which did not raise the suspicions of the authorities. The suspect had been cheating the public for some time and had been wanted by the police for over a month. The police are conducting further investigations and will request for a detention order to detain the suspect the, Fraud Bureau added.