KUALA LUMPUR: Sri Lankan authorities have arrested 10 foreign nationals, including four Malaysians, on suspicion of being involved in committing online financial fraud, following a raid on a hotel in the coastal town of Chilaw yesterday.
According to Sri Lankan police, officers from the Puttalam criminal investigation unit were tipped off regarding suspicious activities at a hotel on Iranawila Road.
Aside from the four Malaysian men, three Ethiopian men and one woman, a Kenyan woman and a Chinese man were also arrested, the police said on their official Facebook page today.
The police confiscated 20 computers, three routers, and 282 mobile phones believed to have been used in the criminal activities. Further investigations are ongoing.