{"id":28248,"date":"2025-04-29T22:44:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T17:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=28248"},"modified":"2025-05-24T12:38:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T07:08:35","slug":"ccd-hunts-suspect-in-multi-million-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=28248","title":{"rendered":"CCD hunts suspect in multi-million fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">he Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) today released a photograph of a suspect wanted in connection with a financial fraud totaling Rs. 28.5 million.<br \/><br \/>Police said the suspect had stolen a jeep worth Rs. 16.5 million from the car park of the National Hospital Colombo on August 25, 2020. In addition, a complaint was received in 2023 regarding a separate fraud of Rs. 12.5 million involving a vehicle.<br \/><br \/>Investigations revealed that the suspect, identified as Rafiq Mohammad Faris, has committed multiple crimes across various areas using forged identities. <br \/><br \/>He is reportedly fluent in several languages and has been known to use fake government badges on vehicles to avoid detection.<br \/><br \/>The suspect, born on July 3, 1976, and holding NIC number 761850466V, is currently on the run. <br \/><br \/>Police seek public assistance in locating the suspect.<br \/><br \/>Anyone with information is urged to contact the OIC of the CCD at 071-8591735 or the OIC of the Investigation Unit 5 of the CCD at 071-8596507.<\/p>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-28248' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=28248&amp;comments=0&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='0 Comments'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>0<\/span> Comments<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-28248' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-28248' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-28248' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-28248'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-28248' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-28248 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>he Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) today released a photograph of a suspect wanted in connection with a financial fraud totaling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-smartphones","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28250,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28248\/revisions\/28250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}