COLOMBO: Sri Lanka´s police have arrested 198 Chinese men on suspicion of operating a cybercrime ring from the South Asian nation, a police spokesman said on Sunday.
Deputy Inspector-General Nihal Thalduwa said the men were taken into custody at four locations during raids carried out since October 6, with 129 arrested in one location on Saturday.
Thalduwa said that a large number of mobile phones and laptop computers were also seized.
“We suspect that they were operating online scams from these locations,” Thalduwa told reporters in Colombo. “Their victims include people in Sri Lanka as well as those overseas.”
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