The Central Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB) has moved to freeze a luxury house valued at around Rs. 40 million in the Ganemulla area, allegedly owned by Nilanthi Perera — known by the alias “Kudu Kumari” — who is currently in prison on drug trafficking charges.
The property was sealed following an inquiry into allegations that it had been acquired through illegally earned assets, Ada Derana reported. The CCIB obtained the freeze order under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act framework that has anchored a wave of recent asset-restraint actions against narcotics figures.
Before the building could be officially secured, however, a group of individuals reportedly entered the property and removed several valuable items, including doors and windows that had been installed in the house. Investigators said the alleged theft occurred after the inquiry had already commenced, and the CCIB has launched a separate special investigation to identify those responsible for damaging the property and stripping the fixtures.
The Ganemulla freeze landed on the same day the CCIB and the Illegal Assets Investigation Division acted on two parallel cases reported by Newswire — a Batapola resident whose wife’s properties totalling roughly Rs. 45 million were frozen under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, and a Peliyagoda woman remanded since May 21 whose Katuwawala land and two-storey house were also frozen by the CCIB. The Peliyagoda case is distinct from the Kudu Kumari operation, with the CCIB sealing both separately on June 17.
The Kudu Kumari property freeze is the latest in a sustained pattern of asset-restraint moves against convicted and remanded drug figures. Earlier this year a Colombo High Court ordered the forfeiture of a Rs. 30 million Thotalanga property tied to a drug trafficker under the same money-laundering framework. The Panadura Magistrate’s Court froze the properties of four female suspects tied to a separate drug network in May, and the Illegal Assets Investigation Division has previously restrained Rs. 40 million in assets linked to the “Panadura Kudu Salindu” network — a different figure unrelated to the Ganemulla case.
The actions sit within the broader Rata Ekata anti-narcotics campaign the government launched in late 2025, which President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said last month had produced more than 186,000 drug arrests and major seizures of heroin, ice and cocaine — paired with steadily wider use of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act to break up the financial networks behind the trade.
Source: Rs. 40 million luxury house belonging to ‘Kudu Kumari’ frozen — Ada Derana, June 17.
