Defence Secretary
Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said that banks could ask for police protection when
they moved large amounts of cash. Commenting on a recent robbery of
billion rupees while it was being transferred from Kurunegala to
Colombo, he said that the banks shouldn’t take unnecessary risks.He
said that the police would help banks as private security firms couldn’t
be entrusted with the responsibility of transferring cash.
The Defence Secretary also said that an employee of the private
security firm hired by The Nations Trust Bank and Hatton National Bank
to move cash from Kurunegala to Colombo, too, had been involved in the
abortive robbery.
Among the six suspects now in custody are three ex-SLAF officers. The
police identified the employee of the private firm wanted in this
connection, too, as an ex-SLAF officer.
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