Sri Lanka arrests 100 Chinese for cyber fraud, police say
Posted by ONLANKA Newsroom on December 23, 2012 - 1:08 pm
COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka on Saturday arrested at least 100 Chinese nationals accused of an internet fraud scheme targeting people in their home country, a police spokesman said.
The accused, all in Sri Lanka on tourist visas, are suspected of hacking into computers in China and then demanding their owners transfer them money, police spokesman Prishantha Jayakodi told Reuters.
Chinese police requested help from Sri Lanka, he said.
Officials at the Chinese embassy in Colombo were not available for comment.
China has been the top lender to Sri Lanka since the end of a 25-year war in May 2009 and thousands of Chinese are working in the country on Chinese-funded infrastructure projects.
Reuters
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How many Sri Lankans were arrested for hacking ?
No any action against them even if we inform to responsible authorities.
Even higher officials with political and bureaucratic powers openly hack others’ computers, emails, and their personnel information.