A 48-year-old woman named “Elizabeth”, who is believed to be a close associate of the suspected large-scale drug trafficker Sinnaiah Gunasekara alias “Kimbula Ela Guna”, has been arrested by the Police Special Task Force (STF).
According to the Police, the suspect was reportedly running Kimbula Ela Guna’s drug syndicate.
She was arrested by the STF on Monday (11), during a raid conducted in the Meethotamulla area in Wellampitiya. Police also found seven grams of crystal methamphetamine (“ice”) in the suspect’s possession at the time of arrest.
Kimbula Ela Guna was arrested in Chennai, India, last year (2022) in an operation jointly carried out by the International Criminal Police Organisation, the Indian Police, and local investigators after obtaining a red notice on the suspects. Intelligence officers had uncovered that Kimbula Ela Guna had fled to India as investigations were launched to arrest him in connection with the suicide bomb attack at a public meeting that injured former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga on 18 December 1999.