A shocking security breach inside Colombo’s high security zone has exposed how contracting workers allegedly removed valuable copper wire from the Central Bank building, raising fresh concerns about institutional security and asset protection.
Fort Police have arrested six employees attached to a contracting company over the alleged theft of copper wire worth about Rs. 4.2 million from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka premises in Colombo Fort.
Investigators say the copper wire had been installed as part of the lightning conductor system located on the top floor of the old sixteen storey Central Bank building within the tightly guarded high security zone.
Police recovered around thirty kilograms of the stolen copper wire from the suspects. According to the complaint, nearly 288 meters of copper wiring had been removed.
The incident was officially reported to Fort Police by a Director of the Central Bank Management Department on the twenty seventh of last month.
