By Roy Denish
WATTEGAMA, Sri Lanka — Trusted to deliver medicine, accused of delivering narcotics instead. Police say two pharmaceutical distribution employees were caught red-handed using a company vehicle to secretly sell narcotic pills for cash, triggering a wider investigation into the alleged trafficking operation.
Sales representatives of a pharmaceutical company, who were supposed to supply local pharmacies with legal medication, were instead caught using their distribution vehicle to illicitly distribute narcotics, police said.
Wattegama Police arrested a sales officer and a delivery driver following a targeted tip-off. The duo was caught red-handed selling multiple boxes of narcotic pills to several individuals for cash from their company-branded delivery lorry.
According to Chief Inspector Kapila Bandara, the officer-in-charge of the Wattegama Police, the suspects had been conducting the illegal operation entirely covertly, completely unbeknownst to the pharmaceutical distribution company that employed them.
Police are currently preparing to file formal charges against both suspects in court. Bandara added that further investigations into the scope of the trafficking ring are ongoing.
