BUSINESSMAN’S LIE PROVED BY CCTV CAMERA’S AT SOUTHERN EXPRESS HIGHWAY

Having burned his own vehicle to obtain comprehensive insurance cover had been proved to be incorrect from evidence from CCTV cameras on the Southern Express Highway

Last Wednesday a businessman had related a story that after he had cashed money from a bank in Wellawatta amounting to Rs 60 lacks, while travelling back he had been followed by a gang and had stopped him along Saranankara Road, Dehiwala, had got into his vehicle and had squeezed his neck and taken him to a lonely road and had taken cash amounting to Rs 60 lacks, burnt his vehicle and had fled away the cash this is not the correct story..
This incident had been reported to the Police who had commenced investigations. According to his version to make the police confused he had confessed that he had been stopped by armed  gangsters who had taken him along the Southern Express Highway from the Kottawa entry point and taken along the kahathuduwa towards Welipenna. He had been taken to Henapita and along a lonely spot had spangled his neck with the phone wire had taken his cash of Rs 60 lacks burnt the vehicle and had fled away.
When he was reluctant to give the money the gangsters had threatened him to tell where the cash was. He was so scared he had told it was under his seat. According to him they had taken him to a lonely road and fled away with the money and set the vehicle on blaze. Owing to bruises he had sustained in his body he was admitted to in a state of shock to the Nagoda hospital.
The first evidence that was revealed through the CCTV cameras is that he had on his own entered the Southern Express Highway from Kottawa all alone. He had been the only occupant in the vehicle. At the point when he entered the Kahathuduwa entry point the CCTV cameras showed as evidence that he was the only occupant in the vehicle.
Afterwards the police personnel had gone to his home and had questioned his wife. She had told that his businessman husband had owed a sum of Rs 130 lacks to a party living abroad and they were to come to Sri Lanka next month. Before he left home he had borrowed a sum of Rs 25,000/- from his wife and had taken along with him a can of petrol with petrol to the value of about Rs 100/-
It is reliably learnt that he had fabricated this story in order to obtain the proceeds of the comprehensive insurance cover for his burnt vehicle and per personal damages in had sustained for his injuries. This money he may have thought he will receive so that he could pay the debts he owes to those who are returning to Sri Lanka next month.
The conclusion from the evidence is that he tried this course of action in order to obtain compensation for his burnt vehicle which was disproved by the CCTV camera pictured that are installed at the Southern Express highway.

The Police are conducting further investigations into this matter.