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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Screw SL" data-source="post: 14358133" data-attributes="member: 455444">Published                     Sunday, January 20, 2013                                                                                                                           The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Colombo has  arrested 14 members who were allegedly involved in a massive financial  fraud withdrawing money from foreign credit cards through an e-commerce  application provided by a State bank in Sri Lanka, the Daily Mirror  revealed. The State bank had suffered a loss of Rs263 million due to this  international fraud and the suspects have been charged under the Public  Property Act, Prevention of Money Laundering Act and the Prevention of  Terrorism (Temporary Provision) Act. Through two Non Government Organisations (NGOs) the suspects had  obtained the Internet Payment Gateway (IPG) facility from the State  bank, the CID investigating into the incident alleged. After the credit card holders had complained to the credit cards  issuers, the fraud had come to light, that their money had been  fraudulently withdrawn by someone without their knowledge. Issuing a Chargeback Notice to the Sri Lankan bank with regard to  Rs454,251/- the FIA Card Services, in one instance, a representative  institution of the Bank of America in USA had alleged that the relevant  money transaction had taken place without its customer’s knowledge.  The State bank suffered a loss of Rs263 million causing severe  damages to its reputation locally and internationally due to this  international fraudulent transaction, the CID said. The CID informed Colombo Fort Magistrate Kanishka Wijeratne, filing a  report in connection with the incident that it had arrested 14 suspects  and held under detention orders for further questioning.  The CID suspected, a massive amount of funds could be remitted to the LTTE as well, through this fraudulent transaction. Further investigations are being conducted by the CID while the 14  suspects arrested had been detained upon a detention order by President  Mahinda Rajapakse as the Defence Minister.</blockquote>

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