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Sri Lanka arrests 37 Chinese at suspected scam center: Police

The Japan Times·No Author·30 days ago
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Colombo – Sri Lankan police have arrested 37 Chinese nationals suspected of running a cyberscam center in the capital Colombo, a spokesman said on Sunday, in the latest crackdown on foreign-run online fraud. The suspects, aged between 23 and 44 and including one woman, were arrested after a tip-off, the police spokesman said. "They had entered the country on tourist visas and were illegally employed, while two of them had overstayed their visas," he added. A local police source said 35 tablet computers, 147 mobile phones and 100 SIM cards were seized at the suspected scam center in the Colombo suburb of Talangama. The arrests came a month after 152 foreign nationals, mostly Chinese, were detained for allegedly running a cyberscam operation out of a hotel in the island's northwest. Immigration authorities arrested 135 Chinese men and women in March for allegedly running a similar scam operation. They have since been deported.…

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