DailyMirror
The millionaire businessman who has cheated 32 students of a sum of rupees 50.7m promising to provide them facilities to follow Medical Degree lectures in a Bangladeshi University was remanded yesterday (03) by the Kaduwela Magistrate Mrs. Sujatha Alahapperuma until June 17.
The remandee is W.M. Ajith Bandula, a businessman of Bogahahena Road, Battaramulla. According to the notices published by the suspect in newspapers he had collected Rs. 18 lakhs from each student from time to time and 32 of them had given him a total amount of five million and 70 lakhs of rupees the police had informed court.
All the 32 boys and girls had studied in a Bangladeshi University for about one month and subsequently they had come to learn that the University had not been registered even in Bangladesh.
When questioned about it over the phone the suspect had flatly rejected their doubt, police had submitted.
Out of the 32 students who went to the Bangladeshi University, sixteen have come back to Sri Lanka and three of them havemade a complaint to the Mirihana Special Crime Investigation Unit and the suspect has been arrested after the inquiries conducted by the Unit.
Under the direction of Nugegoda Superintendent of Police Deshabandu Tennakoon the OIC of the Mirihana Special Crime Investigations Unit Inspector of Police Ranjana Samarasinghe and a team had arrested the suspect.