By Norman Palhawadana
Acting on a tip-off, the police Organised Crime Unit yesterday (16) raided a guesthouse at the Gam Sabha junction, Nugegoda and seized a consignment of ICE and heroin weighing five kilos each.
The police arrested the manager of the guesthouse.
Under interrogation, the suspect revealed that the parcels containing drugs had been handed over to him by an unknown party.
However, the police said they were looking for two persons who managed the guesthouse as a partnership.
A senior officer said the consignment of drugs had a street value of Rs.100 mn.
The manager of the restaurant is a resident of Kandy and had started working there only a few months back.
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[Professor, Université de Montreal, and Principal Research Scientist-Emeritus, National Research Council of Canada]
The claim that the “Western Mafia” has a stranglehold on traditional opinion in Sri Lanka in opposing the free distribution of the “Kali-Anma Paeni” or the “Hela-Suvaya Dum Hattiya” against the Covid Pandemic is seen to be false by the stand taken on Gentically Modified (GM) products in Sri Lanka. Similarly, the political success achieved by Venerable Rathana and others in banning glyphosate provides added proof of the power of those who support the occult sciences and oppose modern science. The glyphosate ban was reversed only when the tea market was about to collapse, with the agricultural sector having faced a loss several times larger than the loss from the bond scam.