The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has uncovered a massive fraud where lands are sold on forged deeds following the arrest of five including a woman. The woman had posed off as the owner of several lands and assisted gangleaders to sell land on forged deeds.
CID DIG D. W. Prathapasinghe directing investigations has deployed a special team to ascertain whether any Land Registry employees are involved in the racket.
The CID DIG warned landowners to check their deeds at the Land Registry to ascertain that their lands have not been transferred to any other person without their knowledge on forged documents.
An organised gang operating in Colombo and other parts prepare bogus deeds of declaration conniving with attorneys and transfer them to gang members.
This is done without the land owner’s knowledge.
Investigations have revealed that a Sri Lankan in Australia had complained to the authorities that his land in Sri Lanka had been sold to an outsider without his knowledge.
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