Sri Lanka, July 24 -- Twenty one leading companies in Sri Lanka are involved in a massive racket of sending dollars abroad under the guise of importing goods in violation of the Customs Ordinance, the Criminal Investigation Department informed the court yesterday (23) before Colombo Chief Magistrate Asanga S. Bodaragama, adding that further investigations are being conducted to confirm this.

Presenting facts when the complaint on transferring dollars worth over 190 billion rupees abroad while pretending to import goods was called, the Criminal Investigation Department stated that six of these companies have been identified so far, and House of Fashion Mall is among them.

Remanded suspect Jeffrey Mohamed, who has allegedly illegally tran...