No phone calls between Batuwatte Chamara’s wife & SSP Lokuhetti –
The Police Media Division, in a statement, said that social media reports claiming that Senior Superintendent of Police Indika Lokuhetti, Director of the Colombo Crimes Division, had held telephone conversations with the wife of a suspect known as “Batuwatte Lolla Chamara”, a leading organized criminal and drug trafficker in Sri Lanka, are false.
According to the statement posted on the Police Media Division’s Facebook page, “Batuwatte Lolla Chamara” is currently being detained and questioned by the Colombo Crimes Division following his arrest by police in Azerbaijan recently.
The statement also said that investigations into assets allegedly acquired through illegal means by him are being conducted by the Central Criminal Investigation Bureau.According to the report referred to in the statement, an analysis of the telephone data records belonging to Batuwatte Chamara’s wife had allegedly shown that a telephone number belonging to Senior Superintendent of Police Indika Lokuhetti, Director of the Colombo Crimes Division, was recorded as one of the numbers that had made calls to the woman.
The statement also said the report claimed that Senior Deputy Inspector General of Police Ranmal Kodithuwakku, who is in charge of the Central Criminal Investigation Bureau, had suppressed the relevant investigation.
