Katunayake police have received a complaint over a sum of nearly Rs. 05 million being stolen from hand luggages of several passengers travelling from Sri Lanka to Dubai on a FitsAir flight.
The robbed passengers had included several doctors who were travelling to a medical conference in Dubai.
The loss of the cash, including 15,000 US Dollars and 6,000 Dirhams, had been only discovered after the passengers had disembarked the flight.
Upon complaining to the Dubai police, they were told to lodge complaints with the Bandaranaike International Airport in Katunayake and with the Sri Lanka Police. However, the robber remains at large.
It is said that the flight lacked CCTV cameras and the airline is also attempting to evade the matter despite the victims also complaining to the company office.
However, a day after the incident, a foreigner travelling from Dubai to Colombo was arrested over another inflight theft and according to media reports, the said suspect is said to have travelled in the aforementioned FitsAir flight to Dubai.
When the ‘Lankadeepa’ newspaper made an inquiry from the airline in this regard, they were told that the company cannot comment to the media.
Aberdeen Holdings, which owns FitsAir, is chaired by Sattar Kassim.
