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Ban on sending women for foreign employment

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The employment of women for domestic and unskilled jobs through tourist visas will be banned with effect from tomorrow (11), the Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau (SLBFE) said.

The Bureau said it received information about women who have gone for employment through tourist visas and been subjected to various harassments especially in the UAE and Oman.

The Sri Lankan embassies of these countries have informed the Bureau about Sri Lankan women stranded there.

However, since no institution or person comes forward to take responsibility for them or their jobs, the concerned women continue to face issues and harassment.

Accordingly, the Ministry of Labor has been notified to ban sending women for unskilled jobs through tourist visas as a problematic situation has arisen when bringing them back to Sri Lanka.

Meanwhile, the Bureau’s Special Investigation Division has received complaints regarding 570 individuals and organizations who have defrauded money by claiming to provide foreign jobs from January to October.

Legal action has been taken over 182 such complaints and the Bureau has taken steps to provide an amount of Rs. 28,383,000 which was recovered from the fraudsters, back to the complainants.

The Bureau said that 17 raids have been conducted in relation to complaints and 43 suspects have been arrested and necessary legal measures have been taken.

Meanwhile, 586 people who tried to travel abroad for work illegally, especially on tourist visas, have been sent back by the Airport unit of the Foreign Employment Bureau this year.

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Assets of 02 police officers to be probed

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Assets of two prominent police officers are to be probed after authorities received a number of complaints, highly placed sources in the government say.

One officer in question is a DIG while the other is a SSP, reports add.

The Police Illegal Assets And Property Investigation Division are conducting further investigations.

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AG seeks CID probe into social media smear campaign against his staff

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The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has opened a probe following a complaint by Attorney General Parinda Ranasinghe that his staff have been unduly targeted by false allegations on social media.

The AG’s instruction to the CID came after several of his staff complained to him over the allegation on social media.

Particularly targeted are senior AG’s Department officials awaiting promotions, sources said.

In one of the posts, a senior officer was accused of being supportive of granting bail to Thamil Makkal Viduthal Puligal (TMVP) leader Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan, alias Pillaiyan, when his fundamental rights application over his arrest was taken up. During the hearing of the FR case, the matter of bail was not even considered, the sources said.

Another allegation was that in a case related to the suspended Police Chief Deshabandu Tennakoon, the AG prevented a senior officer from representing the department and instead sent a junior officer. However, on the particular day, the senior officer was indisposed, the sources said.

These allegations surface as the AG’s Department has filed more than 600 new indictments in High Courts so far this year, while the Bribery Commission has also referred several bribery and corruption cases to the AG for prosecution.

(sundaytimes.lk)
(This story, originally published by sundaytimes.lk has not been edited by SLM staff)

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19-yr. old dies after falling from elevator

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A 19-year-old youth has died after falling from a service elevator at a hotel in the Pannai area, in the Jaffna Police Division.

According to the police, the incident had occurred last night (June 21) and the deceased has been identified as a resident of Nirveli, Jaffna.

According to investigations, the youth was employed at the hotel and had been using the service elevator -intended for transporting goods.

Further investigations are underway.

This incident follows a similar case recently reported from a hotel in Moratuwa last week.

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