Sri Lanka, Oct. 9 -- Two individuals connected to a large-scale scam involving nearly Rs. 200 million, falsely promising jobs in European countries, have been arrested by officers of the Special Investigations Unit of the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE).

The arrested suspects include a resident of Mawanella with years of experience in the foreign employment sector and a retired army colonel from Kadawatha.

The duo has been arrested in Mawanella and Imbulgoda.

The scam was carried out through a foreign employment agency operating in Negombo for about 1.5 years with a valid license from the SLBFE. The agency claimed to offer jobs in the hospitality sector in Hungary, the Netherlands, and Finland and collected large sums of...