The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) on the instructions of IGP Pujith Jayasundara is conducting investigations to confiscate the properties of 24 notorious drug traffickers amounting to billions of rupees.This includes the drug trafficker Samantha De Silva, who was arrested a few weeks ago in Beruwala with 231 kg of heroin.According to the Police Media Spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekara, this confiscation would be done under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act of 2006.
All these suspects have been identified to have foreign assistance for drug trafficking. Some of these drug traffickers have fled the country and some have already been remanded.Earlier also, properties worth billions of rupees belonging to three international drug traffickers had been confiscated.
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