Schoolboys arrested with forged currency notes in Digana

During investigations, the police seized 57 forged currency  notes which the suspects had in their possession. Under interrogation, they stated that they received the forged currency notes from an  individual known to them to purchase anything they wanted.   
Investigations revealed that he had fled from the area to evade arrest when the four boys were arrested.   
Meanwhile, a senior police official said the currency notes  had been printed for a scene of a film shot in Digana area, but without  obtaining permission from the Central Bank. He said the currency notes  printed for such purposes should be clearly marked as duplicates and  handed over to the Central Bank after shooting the scene.   
He said the Director and the Art Director of the film were  taken into custody during investigations. They were residents of Kandy  and Pilimathalawa who had produced a film in 2021, and they had used forged currency notes for one of the scenes.   
The four schoolboys, the Director and the Art Director of  the film were produced before Theldeniya Magistrate who released the  schoolboys on personal bail of Rs,500,000 each and remanded the other  two suspects till December 30.   
HQI Theldeniya Police CI Ravindra Senadeera is conducting  further investigations on the instructions of SSP Roshan Amarasinghe.