COLOMBO, Dec 22, 2012 (AFP) -Authorities in Sri Lanka have arrested 100 Chinese nationals for currency fraud in a series of raids in and around the capital Colombo, police said on Saturday.
"They have defrauded their countrymen by making them... transfer money to accounts maintained in Sri Lanka in the names of those arrested," senior superintendent Prishantha Jayakodi told AFP about the raids on Friday night.