Sri Lanka news columns

Walter Jayawardhana After a week a British criminal court convicted a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) agent for cloning 500 credit cards at a gasoline filling station, a special unit of the police raided a factory that produces chips that will be inserted into card reading machines as a mole , better suited for the crime than the pin hole cameras used earlier. Abdul Samad Mohamed Raik was convicted by the criminal court of Leicestershire a week ago for helping the LTTE to steal 175,000 British Pounds from ATM machines all over the world. Barely a single household on Houghton on the Hill, Leicestershire escaped the Tiger scam. Two others Ibrar Hussain and Mohamed Mahmood were arrested when Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit of the Metropolitan Police of London raided at Burmingham a “sophisticated counterfeit card factory” as described by the police. Police said so far they do not know whether the two men arrested are connected t...