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Playboy Maths-man who circulated fake cash notes of 2000 to the countryWhen accomplices go to jail, Dimuthu made their wives his paramours Dimuthu arrested in the nude
The greatest currency swindler in the country so far was taken into custody by police last week. He had been popular for sometime in Ratnapura, Embilipitiya and Padukka areas as a private tuition master in Maths. This tuition master was 32 year old Dimuthu Nuwan Kumara by name and hailed from the area of Meegoda.
He had passed his A/Ls, but since he was not able to gain entrance to university, he had abandoned his education. He had then launched himself into the field of operating as a tuition master with the idea of getting rich quickly. It was from his childhood that he had this desire to earn additional money in a short period of time as well as in the shortest possible way. He would do anything to reach that target. Dimuthu also had a very good knowledge about computers. Not only the use of a computer .... but he was clever enough to even to repair them. It was a past-time that Dimuthu created a thousand rupee fake cash note for the first time in the year 2008 using a computer. Since this creation of Dimuthu was very much similar to a genuine 1000 rupee note, even friends of his had valued it and praised him. "This is of course a fantastic creation ... can't find the true one from the fake one!" They had told Dimuthu. With Dimuthu being praised, Dimuthu became more and more encouraged. "We'll circulate one of these notes," a friend of Dimuthu had told him one day and Dimuthu responded positively on this suggestion. Subsequently, one of Dimuthu's friends
happened to circulate a fake cash note among genuine notes in the market and his plan met with success. Dimuthu's friend was able to change the fake note among the public without any difficulty whatsoever.
"Machan ... this can be made into a top business. You print the notes ... we'll slowly change them and give you ..." Dimuthu's friends brought forward a new proposal to Dimuthu. Dimuthu who had a burning desire to earn money in the shortest possible way ... agreed to their proposal in one shot, so to say.
Dimuthu who then printed Rs. 500 and 1000 fake notes and gave his friends managed to change them into legal cash notes. A part of the cash notes he changed, he gave his friends while keeping the balance for himself.
Printing fake cash notes became a popular trade. The money earned by shouting tirelessly in tuition classes, Dimuthu was able to earn within the space of a week or two. He then set aside all other work then began this job of printing fake notes day in and day out. He then rented out a house in Hanwella area and said goodbye to his tuition career. Once again he started on his racket of printing fake cash notes. Only a few days passed and rupees lakhs and lakhs kept flowing into Dimuthu's hands.
However, Dimuthu was not fortunate enough to stick to this business of his for long because 2 of his friends who were employed by him to play this game were arrested by the police at Maharagama. That was in the month of November in the year 2009.
These 2 friends of Dimuthu who were nabbed by Maharagama police were handed to the CID for further investigation. Information about Dimuthu began to be revealed at the interrogation conducted at the fake currency investigation unit of the CID.
"Sir ... it is a friend of ours called Dimuthu who prints these fake notes ... he's from Hanwella area ... a tuition master". Dimuthu's friends revealed all information about him. The officers then launched an operation to take Dimuthu into custody. Within a few days he was cornered by the police. By then he had printed and circulated fake currency notes to the value of several lakhs of rupees in the denominations of 1000 and 500 notes.
Thus, Dimuthu was produced in courts for the first time in 2009 and was subsequently remanded. What happened to his friends was only to taste food in the government boarding-house. After spending months in jail, Dimuthu was released on bail and he once again returned to live in Hanwella. However, the terrible desire of earning a quick buck had not left him.
So once again he stepped into his old shoes. This time too he made use of a few more friends with the purpose of escalating his profit. Dimuthu next took steps to operate his trade by moving surreptiously to various locations in the country which he did as a matter of safety precautions to evade the police.
He moved into areas of Homagama, Kandy, Teldeniya,Mahiyanganaya and Piliyandala as well as certain areas in the South, continuing with his usual trade of printing fake currency notes ... this time on a grander scale.
However much of a quantity of cash notes he printed, he was not satisfied by it. Thus, turning fake notes to like like genuine ones, he began to go on a money-spending spree ... and all the more he began to live a luxurious life. He also liked to associate young women who were attractive and all the same he was not hesitant in spending for them lavishly.
Dimuthu had got married to a girl from Hanwella. It was the result of a love affair. He also happened to be a father of 2 daughters. He had turned into so much of a playboy that, apart from his legal wife, he had been keeping clandestine relationships with 6 other paramours.
Dimuthu who lived such a fantastic life of playboy existence once again gets cornered by the law. And that was with a bundle of fake notes.
By the year 2013 Dimuthu had been taken in by the CID on 4 occasions. On each such occasion, once he was released on bail, he went back into his old business.
Dimuthu had the habit of checking about the welfare of families of individuals who had been taken in by the police in connection with this same allegation. It was Dimuthu who provided finances to his accomplices to pay the court fees. Not only that, he even did not forget to constantly inquire about the wellbeing of the wives of his friends who were under police custody. Dimuthu also had the special potential to lay the net over the pretty wives of his friends who had been arrested by the law while engaged in his racket.
In most cases it was wives of these friends whom he kept as his paramours. Other than his legal wife, he maintained intimate relationships with a paramour in Anuradhapura. He was used to having illicit affairs in Hanwella, Mahiyanganaya, Tissamaharama and Rakwana too. It was like grasshoppers being attracted to the light that attractive began to be drawn to Dimuthu.
By the year 2013 he had become one of the main racketeers who was involved in the illegal business of printing fake currency notes. By then he had circulated Rs. 1000 and 500 printed fake notes to the value of close upon Rs. 10 million.
Continuing of printing of fake currency notes and circulating them brought about a dangerous situation in the country too. Though the CID was aware that Dimuthu was a chief culprit in the business of printing fake currency, it was nonetheless a difficult task to trap him into custody. By that time he had been evading 4 courts of law. Since he was roaming around in various cities in the island without remaining in one place, it was indeed a problem to arrest Dimuthu.
Under the instructions of DIG Ravi Seneviratna, Senior Director and Superintendent of Police, Gamini Mathurata of the CID, with the supervision of ASP P. Ampawila, an islandwide investigation was launched to take Dimuthu into custody. Mr. Ampawila had received information that Dimuthu is engaged in printing Rs. 2000 notes on a massive scale apart from 1000 and 500 notes. Under the direction of Nalin Priyadarshana, OIC of the Fraud Bureau vice-squad, an operation was launched to arrest Dimuthu.
The police were able to secure the mobile phone number that Dimuthu was using and that was with the aid of one of his own friends. Investigations were launched across this phone number. However, as Dimuthu was moving around in various locations and operating his business, it was not an easy thing to locate him. Anyhow, officers of the CID who managed to correctly identify the locality in which his phone was active, then began their operations in the afternoon of October 27th. It was through the very phone that Dimuthu was using that the CID was able to gather information about the house in Commercialwaththa, Malabe where he was hiding.
Sub-Inspector Nalin Priyadarshana inclusive of his officers began to conduct a right-round search of the house in Commercialwaththa, Malabe. The police officers were finally able to track Dimuthu's house after a search of about 1 hour. It was a rented house. This house which which was covered by a wall in a manner that any structure within was out of sight had a large gate in front. The police officers surrounded the house and then opened the gate. Dimuthu who became agitated at the sound of the gate being opened, got into action immediately. He of course knew that the police had tracked him down right to his house. He then came out from the house promptly and began crawling towards the wall. He had clad himself only with a piece of towel to cover his naked body and after getting on to the wall, he then jumped down, beating a hasty retreat from that point. While a team of police officers began pursuing him, another team entered the annexe.
The CID officers understood that they had arrived at the exact spot they wanted. Computers, printers and a number of other equipment were found within the annexe. 3500 cash notes of a value of Rs.2000 denomination each, printed just a while ago were found there. The number of papers used for the printing of cash notes were 2400 in number. There were a large number of other half-printed cash notes too. The value of already printed and half-printed cash notes all totalled upto the value of 70 lakhs.
Officers of the CID took steps to get the co-operation of the police too for this operation in cornering Dimuthu who fled from them. In addition, they were supported by people in the area too. The police who surrounded Dimuthu's house at 2.30 in the afternoon, from there onwards began to search all over the village. Slowly and slowly dusk began to settle in; but they were unable to uncover any information about Dimuthu. People who had left for work were now returning home. CID officers sent out an announcement to residents in the neighbourhood cautioning them to keep an eye inside their houses and the ceilings of their houses as well.
In the process, the police received information from a resident in the area. Accordingly, the referred to house was surrounded. Dimuthu who was hiding in a narrow passage between the roof and a strip of concrete of this house was finally taken into custody. At that time, even the piece of towel which he had used to cover himself up was not seen on his body. The police who took Dimuthu into custody then proceeded to take him away with them, thus completing a tiresome operation which had gone on for almost 5 hours.
Dimuthu had rented out this house only a fortnight before his arrest and it was for a monthly rent of Rs. 5000.
He used to print 20 notes to the value of Rs. 2000 daily and he uses his friends to circulate the same number of fake notes among the public. They had targetted places such as business places where aged people worked, wine stores, petrol sheds etc, for this purpose. As such, it was because of the skill of officers of the CID that it was possible to get at the master-mind of this racket of printing fake currency notes which had brought upon some noticeable destruction to the economy of the country.
It has been revealed from investigations that the number of cash notes Dimuthu had released for circulation among the public in the form of 1000 and 2000 fake notes have totalled over 60 lakhs. The CID cautions the public to be vigilant about money transactions. The Police Intelligence Unit also has advised the public to inform the nearest police station if they come to possess a suspected cash note. If not, it is the possessor of the cash note who would get into unnecessary trouble.
Information -- Hemantha Randunu