Former Litro Gas Chairman,Shalila Moonasinghe and three others involved in money transfer from Taiwan bank were granted bail by fort Magistrate a short while ago.
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) arrested Litro Gas chairman N.M.S. Moonesinghe in connection with the transfer of 1.1 million USD from the far Eastern Bank of Taiwan to a Sri Lankan bank account on October 11.
Sri Lankan police have also reportedly arrested two men for allegedly helping international criminals who hacked into computers at a Taiwan bank and stole millions of dollars.
Sri Lanka’s state-owned LP Gas supplier, Litro Gas, says that the company had no connection or knowledge of the alleged transaction that the Chairman of Litro Gas has been accused of.
Taiwan law enforcement authorities launched an investigation into the incident after the Far Eastern Bank was hacked by means of a computer virus where over US$ 60 million was siphoned to an account in Sri Lanka.
