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Extortion racket a family affair
The mastermind is already serving a jail term for a fraud and his wife, daughter and son-in-law were extracting money from businessmen by threatening them. A prison guard has also been taken into custody in this connection.
The Anti-Terrorist Investigations Division of the Kandy Police has traced five million rupees a trader had deposited in a bank account under threats from the gang, which also demanded money from several other wealthy businessmen of the area.
A team headed by IP Yatawara is conducting investigations under direction of Senior DIG Gamini Nawaratne, DIG (Central) Pujith Jayasundara and SSP Jayantha Gammanpila to find whether any other bank accounts were operated by the extortionists.
