Sri Lanka, May 9 -- A retired Major General and a Sergeant Major who were involved in an organized racket of sending retired military personnel as mercenaries to Russia have been arrested by the officers of the Trade, Smuggling and Maritime Crime Investigation Division of the Criminal Investigation Department yesterday (8) night.

Information from the Criminal Investigation Department stated that the Major General called Prasanna Ranawaka was an Army division Commander who retired from military service in 2022 and the Sergeant Major was a person named Sarath Wijesinghe.

Following a long investigation by the CID regarding this racket, the Major General and the Sergeant Major have been arrested.

These two suspects are residents of Kuruneg...