The Police Fraud Investigation Bureau has successfully dismantled a criminal network associated with unlawfully assembling and offering vehicles.Accordingly, the Police Fraud Investigation Bureau has actually apprehended a private associated with the criminal activity in the Matale area.The arrest follows an investigation performed by the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) in charge of the Illegal Assets Investigation Division on the guidelines of the Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) Priyantha Weerasooriya and the Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) in charge of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) DIG P.
Ampavila.Meanwhile, eight illegally assembled cars have actually been discovered in the suspects belongings, and the cops suspect that the chassis varieties of those vehicles with their number plates had been altered.Six of the lorries remain in operational condition, while two others are seriously damaged.During the interrogations from the suspect, it has actually been exposed that there is another car, hidden in the Piliyandala area, which its chassis number and the engine number have actually been altered.Additionally, the investigation has actually found a larger network of individuals associated with this criminal network, consisting of a worker of a financial institution who facilitated financial assistance for customers acquiring these unlawfully put together cars, the cops said.The overall value of the recovered illegally assembled vehicles has been estimated to exceed Rs.
50 million.The suspect has actually been bought to be remanded up until January 6, after being produced before the Mahara Magistrates Court.