An individual who had impersonated a doctor and had financially defrauded people by promising to send them overseas has been arrested by the Borella Police yesterday (05).
The Police stated that the man was arrested near the Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children in Borella.
The suspect is a 56-year-old resident of Yakwila in Pannala and is reported to have temporarily resided in the Rukgahawela area in Wathupitiwala.
Further investigations have revealed that the man had posed as a doctor near the National Hospital in Colombo and had defrauded Rs. 70,000 from an individual promising to send him to Australia.
The suspect will be produced before the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court today. The Borella Police is conducting investigations into the matter. (NewsWire)
