Sri Lanka, April 30 -- Assistant Director of the External Resources Department of the Ministry of Finance, Ranga Rajapaksa, who had been interdicted over the alleged USD 2.5 million cyber heist, was found dead under suspicious circumstances at his residence in Kuliyapitiya this evening (30).

Kuliyapitiya Police said they received information this afternoon that Rajapaksa had been found dead. According to police, Rajapaksa's daughter noticed him lying in the garden and alerted her mother, who then informed the authorities.

Accordingly, officers who arrived at the scene observed a fairly large bloodstain near a banana tree in his garden.

Police also noted that Rajapaksa had sustained three cuts on one leg and another injury to his arm, w...