A 63-year-old woman, who runs a mobile phone repair and sales place in Bambalapitiya, has offered a job in her mobile phone shop, taking pity on a young man who came to her shop asking for a job.
It was last 23rd.
This young man has appeared as Shan. 199718500600 has been submitted as his National Identity Card number. The young man told the 63-year-old that his parents had died when he was young and that he grew up in an orphanage.
She has also provided accommodation for this young man at her home in Collingwood Place, Wellawatta, as he said he had no place to go.
That person has earned the trust of this woman and continued his work. He is also the one who worked together with the daughter of the owner to open the mobile phone shop in Bambalapitiya at around 09.00 yesterday morning (27).
On this day, the owner of this mobile phone sales place has gone out for a personal need. That is why a young man named Shan with his daughter has come to open the shop.
At around 10:00 this afternoon, the daughter also went out of the shop to have breakfast, handing over the shop to the young man.
Meanwhile, the owner of this place has made a phone call to her daughter to get some information. When she came to know that her daughter was outside the mobile repair shop, she called the young man inside the shop. When there was no response from him, she called a shop owner nearby. She has come to know from the shop owner that the mobile phone shop is open and nobody is inside it.
Accordingly, she reached the shop by 10.30 am, and her daughter also reached there at the same time. During the inspection of the place where money is kept in the shop, it has been found that Rs. 15 million, which was prepared to go abroad for business purposes, has gone missing. She complained this to the Bambalapitiya Police and mentioned that money belonging to 07 countries was among them.
Apart from foreign currency, Rs. 500,000 of the local currency was among the stolen money. The police say that they could not find any information about the young man who stole this amount of money until yesterday. Police say that the mobile phone shop owner who hired this young man for a job does not know anything about him and even knows only the part that he was called Shan.
