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Online racket of prostitution ..... bringing down girls from the Maldives ...
on student visa
The police intelligence unit was able to bust a massive-scale racket on information received where girls are brought down here on student visa and are used for prostitution purposes in Colombo and close-by areas.
Evidence that this racket has been going on for a period of time has now been revealed as an institution that poses off as a medium of transacting business of granting visas for higher studies in Sri Lanka. It is thus found that they have been getting down a number of girls between the ages of 20 25 from the Maldives and are using these girls in the business of prostitution.
The police intelligence unit says that the business had been cleverly organised by using several websites and mobile phones which have been used for monetary transactions. It was further exposed that the girls were made to engage in higher studies at private institutions and in the nights they engage in prostitution in luxury housing complexes in and around Colombo. A large sum of about Rs. 40,000 have been charged for a night and this trade of prostitution had been particularly for the elite class in the country.
The police intelligence unit also say that these Maldivian girls on certain occasions have even invited Sr Lankan girls engaged in higher studies with them to put up the night with them and had then lured them to prostitution.
Several raids have been conducted in relation to those involved in the racket and the police have now made plans to trap the mastermind who directed these activities.
Narration -- Prasad Gunawardena