A multi-day fishing vessel seized by the Navy while it was transporting drugs has been found to contain heroin worth over Rs. 400 crores, Deputy Minister of Defense Aruna Jayasekara said. He made this statement when he arrived to inspect the drug haul.
An inspection conducted by the Narcotics Bureau revealed that the drugs on board were heroin.
After inspecting the relevant drugs, the four suspects on board the multi-day fishing vessel were brought ashore by the Police Narcotics Bureau and arrested. It is reported that the drugs on board the vessel weighed nearly 150 kilos.
The Navy seized the multi-day fishing vessel during a special operation conducted in the deep sea south of Sri Lanka yesterday (16). Commenting on the drug haul, Deputy Minister of Defense Aruna Jayasekara said:
“We have information that the drugs were supplied by a foreign ship and accordingly we are now acting internationally. What I have been informed now is that the 150 kilograms is more than 400 million rupees if we take it in street money. It could be even more.”