PRISONERS AND JAILERS IN JOINT LUCRATIVE SIDE BUSINESS AT WELIKADA

At Welikada Prison, convicted young drug dealers in the women’s section jointly with Jailer sisters in money lending business with fish Mudalali’s exposed.

Convicted young women drug dealers in Welikada prison along with the sister Jailers had been engaged in a lucrative money lending business for some time with the Peliyagoda fish merchants. It is reported that money lent is sent in an official ‘three wheeler’ every morning. The capital and interest at 20% is brought back in the same ‘three wheeler’ in the evening. The net profit it is learnt is shared between the convicted sister drug dealers and the Jailer sisters. This had been in operation on for some time in a secret manner.
It is also reported that the overtime money of the sister Jailors are also invested in this business of money lending.