NPP member arrested over foreign job scam

A local government election candidate of the National People’s Power (NPP), vying for the Ambalantota Pradeshiya Sabha, has been arrested for defrauding money from people on the promise of employment opportunities in Thailand.

According to reports, the suspect had left the victimized people high and dry in Laos after promising them that they would be taken to Thailand.

After the lawmakers shed light on the suspect’s scams during a recent parliamentary session, the suspect had surrendered via an attorney-at-law.

The NPP member in question was absconding from the Foreign Employment Bureau’s investigating officials who had launched an investigation into him after having received multiple complaints from people who had fallen prey to his scam.

The suspect will be produced before the Hambantota Magistrate’s Court today (March 10).