The Hon. Rajeevan Jeyachandramoorthy
Hon. Rajeevan Jeyachandramoorthy raised concerns about increasing digital banking fraud, unauthorized data breaches, and delays in responding to public complaints of funds being siphoned through banks and other institutions. He asked whether real-time intelligence-sharing mechanisms exist or will be established among the CID’s Computer Crime Division, Sri Lanka CERT, and the Central Bank’s Financial Intelligence Unit to enable immediate freezing of stolen or fraudulently transferred funds.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, we receive continuous complaints on financial fraud. Money is siphoned from the public via banks and other institutions, but responses and remedial steps are too slow. Cybersecurity and financial investigations are spread across Police, CID, Central Bank and Sri Lanka CERT. Rapid inter-agency coordination and immediate fund-freezing are essential.
¶ 02 My supplementary: With rising digital banking fraud and unauthorized data breaches, are there now, or will there be, real-time intelligence-sharing mechanisms among the CID’s Computer Crime Division, Sri Lanka CERT and the Central Bank’s Financial Intelligence Unit to immediately freeze stolen or fraudulently transferred funds before they are withdrawn or spent?
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- Hansard, Thursday, 21 May 2026 ·No. 23621 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Rajeevan Jeyachandramoorthy. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 21 May 2026. No. 23621. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/7288