INFORMATION RECEIVED ABOUT FILM PRODUCER WHO SOLD DRUGS

News was reported yesterday of a strange person who without wasting money earned from drug-

He is the master-brain Mohammed Mujahid who master-minded operations of bringing loads of heroin from Pakistan and later reexporting the drugs under the name 'Ceylon Tea'. It is he who won even awards at film festivals in the past for producing films such as 'Selvam'and 'Paravarthana'. Police say that already action has been taken to secure an open court warrant to arrest Mohammed Mujahid who is a billionaire. It is also reported that he is presently living in Malaysia and that as a Red Signal has been issued across the Interpol, an effort is being taken to cordon him. In the meantime it had been understood that he had been bestowed the 'Datho' Award for the Best Entrepreneur in Malaysia. It was announced that this drug-trafficker who appears as a wealthy businessman involved in the construction field in Malaysia also possesses businesses in Dubai.

He had brought 7 containers with heroin hidden in them during the period 2009 to 22nd July in the year 2014. He had thus reexported 750 - 1000 kilos from this country in those containers. It was said that he had brought the heroin into this country under the pretext of bringing furniture, textiles, apples, plant and machinery, plywood and rice hidden in those containers. It is suspected that it is this racketeer who had brought the stock of heroin hidden in grease tins where a former Minister's Secretary was mentioned. It has been revealed by investigations carried out by the Police Anti-Narcotics Bureau that a part of the heroin so brought had been kept for use in this country itself while the balance stock of heroin was distributed to other foreign countries under a popular tea name as Ceylon Tea. As such, he had sent a stock of heroin on a large scale to Australia and even the Australian Federal Police have been notified about it by the Police Anti-Narcotics Bureau.

Information about this racket operating with Sri Lanka as a hub had been reviewed by the Narcotics Prevention Agency of a Western country. Authorities of the said agency which involved themselves in a

long-term survey on this matter had given information to our country's Police Anti-Narcotics Investigation Bureau on March 5th 2013. Accordingly, uniting with the Anti-Narcotics Bureau they had sent one of their representatives to the country as a spy. He even had made connections with racketeers in the country appearing as an agent who was transporting drugs to Turkey. After making an alliance over the telephone first he had later met a drug-trafficker at a luxury hotel in Colombo. On that occasion officers of the Police Anti-Narcotics had disguised themselves and had kept vigil in the hotel at various points. The the Police Anti-Narcotics bureau which then were successful in tracking the international network as well as the local network of these racketeers on checking the telephone numbers have managed to extract much information with the aid of relevant Western agencies.

On the above revelations the Police Anti-Narcotics Bureau were able to detect that it was one Ahamad Sabreen Nabujideen living in Kandy who happened to distribute heroin on a grand scale by making Sri Lanka its hub. The police spokesman revealed that he was a cousin of "Kudu Siyam' a heroin dealer of Ward Place. 'Kudu Siyam' is presently under a death sentence. The Police Anti-Narcotics Bureau was able to apprehend this person in Kandy with 59 kilos of heroin on August 15th in 2014. Prior to that, customs officers were able to take into custody 93 kilos of heroin sent to this country concealed within grinding machines, on July 22nd in 2014. The police spokesman also mentioned that an agent of the racketeers by the name of Mohammed Hamza who had come to assist in releasing this stock of heroin too was taken into custody by the Police Anti-Narcotics Bureau.

It was then that information about Mohammed Mujahid who was the owner of a number of businesses and property came into the open. It was revealed from police investigations that Pakistani racketeers did not send even a single gram of heroin to this country without the knowledge of this person who kept constantly moving to and fro in countries such as Malaysia, Dubai and Singapore. He was supposed to have his rendezvous with Pakistani racketeers in luxury hotels in Dubai. It has already been exposed that the leader of heroin racketeers of Wele Suda and Sideek had been this person. This racketeer who has come to be known as the godfather of heroin-trafficking in this country according to police revelations had intimately associated politicos and powerful civil servants in the past and that on occasions when heroin was detected in bulk he had fled to Malaysia and had made his residence there.

Police sources reveal that preliminary discussions are taking place on action that has to be launched to arrest this heroin-trafficker who is enjoying a VIP existence in Malaysia, and bring him to this country. Police Spokesman Mr. Ruwan Gunasekera explained that Siyam of Ward Place is married to the elder sister of this racketeer. It has been observed from police investigations that after Siyam was taken into custody with heroin in his possession, Mujahid had taken over operations of the business into his own hands and had become the leader of the network between Pakistan and Sri Lanka in a short period of time. Mr. Ruwan Gunasekera said that the profit from the film 'Selvam' amounted to Rs. 55 lakhs and that he had not even claimed that sum of money. It is understood that court orders necessary to confiscate that money has been taken. Steps have been taken by the Criminal Investigation Bureau to escheat local monies of this racketeer.