Skype lover's gift with tax

Cupid Preethi Viraj Weeraratna ....
                   who robs money .... from girls through skype calls
The police solicits public support to arrest a person by the name of Preethi Viraj Weeraratna who is engaged in cheating wealthy girls of their money by connecting them through the skype over marriage proposals published across the internet.

In recent times he has preyed on a girl from Welimada area. He has done so on the pretense of giving a gift.

As reported, the incident is as follows:  A young girl residing in Mirissa area, Yatipila, Welimada has published a marriage advertisement with an institute catering to those seeking marriage partners over the internet. According to details published by her, her skype reference and e-mail address had been given and various individuals had made contact with her.

In the process, she had shown an interest over a young man who had secured her mobile phone number and telephone number of her house and had promised to take her as his wife. The young man who spoke by the name of Preethi Viraj Weeraratna had said that he was at that time in Malaysia. After coming to know that the girl hailed from an affluent family, he had after some days told her that he had sent her a present and that it really  was a big one. He had also said that a friend would be helping her to release it from the Customs.

The girl who decided to accept it with glad thoughts had phoned Preethi's friend when she was told that in order to clear it from Customs, a sum of Rs. 478620 was necessary. However she has had not an inkling of an idea about any suspicion that what the young man was planning to cheat her of the money. Therefore she had credited the money concerned to the account of the friend who was supposed to be in Colombo and was keeping her fingers crossed awaiting the surprise gift coming to Matara.

But after the cash transaction, the skype friend had disappeared from the internet while the telephone of the individual who was supposed to be his friend himself has severed the phone connection.

It was after that, that the young girl realised that she had fallen into a soup. An investigation was conducted over a complaint lodged by her at Matara Crime Detection Unit last 21st.

Based on facts revealed on perusal of records of accounts and identified telephone networks revealed that the supposed-to-be friends of the person who played the role of the lover were suspects resident in Serunuwara area aged 35 and 25 years and both were taken into custody.

On further interrogation of these two suspects, information has been unravelled that the main suspect involved in this gang Preethi Viraj Weeraratna has been found to be living at present in Malaysia. Police has by now received information that this suspect  is appearing in the internet and is using telephones under the guise of various identities. As reported to police, the names by which the suspect has appeared are, Jaya Hewage Nimesh Weerawardena, Sherad Wijeynaika, Harsha A.L. Dissanayaka and J. Wickramasingha.

The police inform that permission for a warrant to issue a Red Alert in order to arrest the suspect has been requested for from International Police. Those who have been duped by him or those who are aware of any information about him are requested to inform the police.

(Two photos, presumably of the suspect, 2012 and 2014 released by the police are published BELOW).