The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has arrested three members of a gang who were involved in an organized racket to sell fake PCR reports making them look like issued by a leading private hospital in Sri Lanka.
The CID has revealed that the fraud was perpetrated by setting up a fake website similar to the website of a private hospital and setting up a database on PCR reports.
The actual PCR report issued by the relevant hospital will be forwarded to the database on the hospital’s web page when it is scanned at the airport by a person ready to go abroad. This will enable you to confirm the accuracy of this report.
What the smugglers have done is create a web page similar to the hospital web page that is designed to point to that page when their fake PCR report is scanned. The real hospital webpage and the fake webpage were designed to be indistinguishable changing one English letter in the web address.
The smugglers had issued a fake PCR report for around Rs. 6,000. Investigations have revealed that more than 700 people have gone abroad in the past two months alone obtaining fake PCR reports from them.
The mastermind of this racket is a resident of Darganagar. A senior CID official said that their agents were all over the country and that the person who ran the website was among the suspects arrested.
Operations are underway to arrest the other suspects. The arrested suspects are due to be produced in court today.
