{"id":973,"date":"2026-05-08T07:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=973"},"modified":"2026-05-08T07:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:22:18","slug":"two-foreign-nationals-arrested-with-fake-us-dollars-in-habaraduwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/08\/two-foreign-nationals-arrested-with-fake-us-dollars-in-habaraduwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Foreign Nationals Arrested with Fake US Dollars in Habaraduwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Habaraduwa Police have arrested two foreign nationals for allegedly possessing counterfeit US dollars.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, investigations were launched following a complaint that the two foreigners, who were staying at a lodging facility in the Pilalla area within the Habaraduwa Police Division, had attempted to use 400 fake US dollars for a transaction at a business establishment yesterday (07).<\/p>\n<p>During a subsequent search operation, police recovered an additional 5,200 counterfeit US dollars from the suspects, who were residing in Sri Lanka on tourist visas.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects, aged 26 and 27, are nationals of Tajikistan.<\/p>\n<p>Police stated that the suspects are currently being detained and questioned in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Further investigations are being carried out by Habaraduwa Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Habaraduwa Police have arrested two foreign nationals for allegedly possessing counterfeit US dollars. According to police, investigations were launched following a complaint that the two foreigners, who were staying at a lodging facility in the Pilalla area within the Habaraduwa Police Division, had attempted to use 400 fake US dollars for a transaction at a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973","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\/973","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=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}