The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested 3 suspects in connection with a financial fraud case involving the Sri Lanka Ayurvedic Drugs Corporation.

The arrests took place after a complaint was filed by the General Manager of the Sri Lanka Ayurvedic Drugs Corporation, located at Old Kottawa Road in Nawinna, Maharagama, on 20 March.

The complaint, alleging that a sum of Rs. 27,031,024.15 was fraudulently obtained through altered cheques by manipulating data in the corporation’s computer software system led to the arrests on 1 April.

Accordingly, the suspects were produced before the Nugegoda Magistrate’s Court (MC) yesterday (2) and remanded until 11 April, while the CID continues to investigate.