A foreign couple has been identified behind several cash robberies at stores in various parts of Sri Lanka recently. 

According to reports, the foreign couple is found to have stolen Rs. 110,000 from a vegetable shop in Kurunegala and Rs. 140,000 from a grocery store in Pilimathalawa, Kandy. 

The public has been warned to be vigilant of the couple who are yet to be arrested. 

It is reported that the couple visits grocery and vegetable shops where they engage in conversation with the workers or owners on Sri Lankan currency.

Claiming to not have seen Sri Lankan currency notes, especially Rs. 5000, the couple is seen manipulating store owners and workers to display the money from their cashier tills. 

Pretending to check the currency, the foreign man is seen stealing money from under the cash bundle given by the cashiers and workers, while the woman is seen distracting fellow workers. 

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A foreign couple has discreetly stolen nearly Rs. 40,000 from a cashier at a store in Ganemulla.

CCTV footage of the incident shows the foreigners engaging in conversation with the store cashier about local currency notes.

The male suspect is seen reaching into the cash drawer and discreetly arranging Rs. 5000 notes under lesser currency notes, while in discussion with the cashier, and later pocketing it unknowingly to the cashier. 

The owner of the store had later found that money was missing while doing the day’s accounts. (Newswire)

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A 35-year-old man has been arrested in connection to the theft of Rs. 75 million from a van belonging to a Cash in Transit Service, in Minuwangoda on Monday morning.

The Minuwangoda Police and the Gampaha Division Crimes Investigation Unit launched a probe into the theft by a man employed as a driver of a private firm.

Officials from the Gampaha Division Crimes Investigation Unit arrested a 35-year-old man in the Kaduwangaha area in Gampaha last afternoon based on a tip-off.

The man was in possession of 05.420 grams of ICE at the time of his arrest, while further interrogation led the Police to find Rs. 31,515,291 cash from the stolen cash. 

The arrested suspect is a resident of Makawita. The Minuwangoda Police and the Gampaha Division Crimes Investigation Unit are conducting further investigations. (Newswire)

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