{"asset":"news","key":"5881","locale":"en","id":"news:5881:en","entityId":"news:5881","canonicalUrl":"https://www.kps-tv.com/en/news/detail/5881","state":"ready","title":"Sri Lanka police report arrest of 147 foreigners in suspected online scam operation","summary":"Police said the detainees at an Iranawila hotel included 133 Chinese nationals, 13 Bangladeshis and one Vietnamese national.","body":"Sri Lankan police said on April 3 that officers had raided a suspected transnational online financial scam operation at a hotel in Iranawila, arresting 147 foreign nationals.\nPolice said the detainees included 133 Chinese nationals, 13 Bangladeshis and one Vietnamese national, all suspected of involvement in organised online financial fraud. Preliminary investigators believe the group had long used the hotel as cover for online scams and related offences and may form part of a transnational scam network.\nThe report says all suspects have been detained in accordance with the law and investigations are continuing. Police are tracing financial flows, the group’s structure and any links to a wider international criminal network, and say they will continue efforts against transnational criminals using Sri Lanka as a scam base.\n..","contentScope":"full","proof":{"publishedSourceRevision":"1","publishedWorkingVersionId":"14270","languageVersionId":"8891","visibilityVersion":"2","versionToken":"a1.IwM3fU6Z7rv5Dg-9BjXvu1uXcNZ-fl4y085CiQMnHuI"},"availableLocales":["zh","en","km"],"attributes":{"sourceLocale":"zh","translationKind":"machine","nodeId":"183","authorText":"","sourceName":"KPS99TV"},"references":[],"links":[],"publishedAt":"2026-04-04T03:21:21Z"}