{"id":748,"date":"2026-05-03T14:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T14:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=748"},"modified":"2026-05-03T14:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T14:32:11","slug":"120-foreign-nationals-arrested-in-major-fraud-operation-in-rajagiriya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/03\/120-foreign-nationals-arrested-in-major-fraud-operation-in-rajagiriya\/","title":{"rendered":"120 Foreign Nationals Arrested in Major Fraud Operation in Rajagiriya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 120 foreign nationals have been arrested by police in connection with alleged illegal financial fraud and unlawful activities in Rajagiriya, on Metha Welikada Road.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects include individuals from China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Madagascar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Cambodia, according to police reports.<\/p>\n<p>During the raid, police recovered a large number of computers and mobile phones believed to have been used in the fraudulent operations.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary investigations have revealed that the group had rented several floors of a multi-storey apartment building on Metha Welikada Road and was operating the scam from the premises.<\/p>\n<p>Police also stated that a group of suspects managed to flee during the raid. Welikada Police are continuing further investigations to apprehend those who escaped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 120 foreign nationals have been arrested by police in connection with alleged illegal financial fraud and unlawful activities in Rajagiriya, on Metha Welikada Road. The suspects include individuals from China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Madagascar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Cambodia, according to police reports. During the raid, police recovered a large number of computers and mobile &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}