The Far Eastern International Bank last week said, through the planted malware, hackers conducted virtual transactions to move funds totaling nearly US$60 million from customers’ accounts to destinations such as Sri Lanka, Cambodia and the United States.The CID was requested to investigate. They launched an investigation and the first suspect was arrested on Friday(6) while attempting to withdraw Rs. 80 million from a local bank account. But by the time he had already withdrawn Rs. 30 million from the said bank account on Wednesday (4).
On receiving information regarding his imminent arrest Mr. Moonasinghe, who is a resident of the address 441/12B, 6th lane, Ethul Kotte was attempting to go abroad from Mattala or Katunayake airports after evading arrest without assisting in the investigations relating to this incident, court has issued this order after accepting the request made by the CID.
Meanwhile, Colombo Additional Magistrate Jeyaram Trotskyyesterday issued an order to the controller of Immigration and Emigration by proscribing the foreign travels of Shalila Moonasinghe as requested by the CID in connection with the Taiwan bank heist.
However, Litro Gas Chairman cum leader of the New Democratic Front (NDF), Shalila Moonasinghe was arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) yesterday in connection with the alleged transferring of USD 1.1 million from Far Eastern International Bank of Taiwan to his personal account in Sri Lanka, CID sources revealed.He was appointed as the Litro Chairman by the former Finance Minister Ravi karunanayake in the year 2015.
Meanwhile, Taiwanese media reported that Taiwan’s Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) was preparing to send investigators to Sri Lanka to seek further details on the arrest of the suspects accused of helping hackers stealing millions of US dollars from the bank. On Saturday, Far Eastern Bank said it had recovered most of the stolen money and that its losses would amount to no more than US$500,000. Earlier, the first suspect Janaka Chaminda Nammuni, a resident of Fairway Apartment on Buthgamuwa road , Rajagiriya was arrested on the allegation leveled against him was getting transferred to his bank account in Sri Lanka a large sum of money belonging to a Taiwan bank.
The CID launched the investigation following a complaint made by Bank of Ceylon about this fraudulent money transaction on October 6.
