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Court hears CID probe into $2.5 million Treasury theft
Sri Lanka's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Tuesday informed the Colombo Fort Magistrate's Court that investigations are underway into the
Summary
Officials told the court that the payment, made as part of Sri Lanka's external debt servicing process, had been redirected to a third party through a fraudulent email resembling that of Australia's Export Finance Agency. The CID said investigations are also exploring whether systems of the Australian institution may have been compromised. No suspects have been named so far.
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People
- Isuru Neththikumara2
- Enable
- Dean
Organisations
- Criminal Investigation Department2
- External Resources Department2
- Colombo Fort Magistrate2
- Sri Lanka Computer2
- Magistrate2
- Treasury2
- University of Colombo's Faculty of Computing
- Magistrate Isuru Neththikumara
Places
- Australia2
- Sri Lankan
- Sri Lanka
- Honour
Keywords
- court2
- exportfinance
- informed
- million
- scandal
- cyber
- hears
- locks
- probe
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