Twenty four stranded Sri Lankans in Laos brought back | Daily News

Twenty four stranded Sri Lankans in Laos brought back

Asked to commit computer financial frauds there
Had gone without registering with SLBFE
Some of the  stranded youth who arrived at the  BIA yesterday.  Picture by T. K. G. Kapila
Some of the stranded youth who arrived at the BIA yesterday. Picture by T. K. G. Kapila

Twenty-four Sri Lankan youths who had gone to work in the computer field in Laos, were trapped in a special area of the country for not committing computer financial frauds assigned to them. They were rescued yesterday (24) and brought to Katunayake Airport.

These are a group of young people who had received further education in computers representing the Southern province including Hambantota and Galle.

They had left for Bokio in Laos, about four months ago, to work in the computer field, in the Golden Triangle in the special economic zone, under a business visa without registering with the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment.

Their passports, mobile phones and other valuable documents, had been taken into custody by the company that employed them, as soon as they went there.

Then the group of Sri Lankans who had been taken to the company’s office located in this particular zone, had been asked to carry out as part of their job, to obtain money from persons

interested in joining, fraudulently through the internet by pointing out that fake investment opportunities were available in this zone by using various types of accounting methods.

The company had taken steps to imprison this group of Sri Lankan youths who had refused to carry out this task, without giving them a chance to inform Sri Lanka or the outside world about this incident, and to ensure they could not leave this special economic zone.

However, this group of Sri Lankan youths, who have good skills in computers, had overcome these barriers and taken steps to reveal this series of events to the world with great effort.

There is no embassy officer representing Sri Lanka in the state of Laos, instead Damith Aluthge and Sanjaya Mahawatta, from a civil organization, had put in a lot of effort to bring this group of young people out of this region and to rescue them from that company and arranged for them to return to Sri Lanka.

The group had been brought from Laos to Bangkok, Thailand, and from there they had been brought back to Sri Lanka on Sri Lankan Airlines flight UL-403. They had arrived at the Katunayake Airport by 10.20 in the morning yesterday (24).

 

 

 


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