Underworld figures flown to Colombo from Madagascar

By Norman Palihawadane

Underworld gang leaders, Nadun Chinthaka alias Harak Kata, and Panadura Salindu Lakshita alias Kudu Salindu, who had been staying abroad, were flown back to the Bandaranaike International Airport yesterday morning (15), from Madagascar.

A team of officers from the Colombo Crime Division, and the Organised Crime Investigation Unit, arrived at the BIA air cargo terminal to pick up the two suspects.

Strict security was deployed at the airport, and in the surrounding area, as they were whisked away to Colombo.

Eight people including the two international drug traffickers who went to Madagascar in a private jet, on 12 February, posing as wealthy investors were arrested at Iwato Airport, in Madagascar, on 01 March by Malagasy authorities. They were arrested when they arrived at the airport to leave Madagascar.

A team of four officers of the Criminal Investigation Department and the Police STF left for Madagascar, on 11 March, and had taken Harak Kata and Kudu Salindu into their custody on Monday (13).