{"id":70617,"date":"2017-10-13T12:46:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T19:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=70617"},"modified":"2017-10-13T12:46:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T19:46:31","slug":"home-economics-two-out-of-five-suspects-arrested-in-bank-hacking-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/10\/13\/home-economics-two-out-of-five-suspects-arrested-in-bank-hacking-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Home > Economics Two out of five suspects arrested in bank hacking case"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Focus Taiwan News Channel<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Taipei, Oct. 13 (CNA) Sri Lankan police have apprehended two of the five suspects allegedly involved in the hacking of US$60 million from Taiwan&#8217;s Far Eastern International Bank earlier this month, according to an update from the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>CIB section chief Chiu Shao-chou (\u90b1\u7d39\u6d32) told reporters that two individuals of dual British and Sri Lankan citizenship have been apprehended by Sri Lankan police.<\/p>\n<p>One of the suspects, identified as Janaka Chaminda Nammuni, was arrested on Oct. 6 while trying to withdraw the equivalent of NT$15.7 million (about US$520.000) from a bank in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>The other, identified as Shalila Moonesinghe, chairman of national liquefied petroleum gas supplier Litro Gas, was arrested on Oct. 9 after allegedly transferring US$1.1 million from Far Eastern International Bank to his personal account, according to Sri Lankan media reports.<\/p>\n<p>Police in Sri Lanka are on the hunt for three remaining suspects &#8212; one Sri Lankan and two Indians &#8212; but have not ruled out the possibility that there were others involved in the heist.<\/p>\n<p>As for the money that was illegally wired out, Chiu said 99.74 percent of it has either been recovered or at least frozen.<\/p>\n<p>(By Chu Tse-wei and Kuan-lin Liu)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Focus Taiwan News Channel Taipei, Oct. 13 (CNA) Sri Lankan police have apprehended two of the five suspects allegedly involved in the hacking of US$60 million from Taiwan&#8217;s Far Eastern International Bank earlier this month, according to an update from the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) on Friday. CIB section chief Chiu Shao-chou (\u90b1\u7d39\u6d32) told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}