A person suspected to be an accomplice of ‘Makandure Madush’ has been arrested by the Mirihana Special Crimes Unit at Wattala, stated the Police.
The arrested suspect has been identified to be a person called Kirayadurage Kasun Dhananjaya alias ‘Wedikande Kasun’. He has been arrested at his residence in Wedikanda, Wattala, this morning (19).
The arrest has been made with regard to a gem and diamond robbery at Pannipitiya in 2018.
On 05th November 2018, a group dressed in police uniforms and casual clothing had forcibly entered the house of a gem businessman in Erawwala, Pannitpitiya. They had assaulted the house owner and stolen a diamond worth Rs 7 billion and a stock of gems. Reportedly, a foreigner who had arrived at the house to buy gems, too, had been abducted and abandoned in Maharagama area.
