A 19-year-old student who set up two WhatsApp accounts under the names of two famous models and tactically lured young women to send nude photos saying that they would be offered jobs in the modeling industry has been arrested
The arrest was made by the Social Media Crime Investigation Section of the Computer Crime Division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).
Police have found nearly 15 nude photos of young women from the suspect’s computer.
: He had been engaged in this racket since 2021 and the investigations have been launched to find out whether the suspect was involved in a money-making racket by sending nude photos to foreign buyers and whether the young women were blackmailed.
Colombo Chief Magistrate Prasanna Alwis yesterday (16) ordered to release the suspected student on a surety of Rs.200,000
