Property worth more than Rs. 90 million belonging to an alleged organised drug trafficker has been frozen by the Illegal Assets Division, Hiru News reported.
The suspect was named as Mohamed Fadildeen, alias “Shahrukh Khan”, a 48-year-old resident of Wattala.
What was frozen
The Division said the assets were frozen following his arrest. They comprise:
- Six houses, of which two are described as ultra-luxury
- One motor car
Police said the properties were purchased using money earned from drug trafficking.
Part of a wider asset drive
The freeze fits a shift in narcotics enforcement from arrests and seizures toward the property held by trafficking networks. In August, police confirmed an Illegal Assets Division investigation covering 25 organised crime figures, including suspected large-scale trafficker Shiran Basik, with prohibition orders obtained against properties bought in relatives’ names.
That inquiry also covers figures known as Kosgoda Suji, Rathgama Vidura, Ratmalane Saima and Kanjipani Imran. Freezing orders of this kind restrain a suspect from selling or transferring the property while proceedings continue; they are not a forfeiture, which requires a court to rule the assets were criminally acquired.
Not reported
Hiru does not say when the arrest took place, what charges Fadildeen faces, which court the freezing order was obtained from, or where the properties are located. It gives no breakdown of how the Rs. 90 million valuation is arrived at across the six houses and the car, and does not say whether the inquiry extends to assets held in other names.
This case is distinct from the separate Illegal Assets Division freeze of assets belonging to a trafficker known as “Bathala Heen Mahaththaya” reported earlier in September, and from an unrelated Rs. 130 million money-laundering freeze.
