The murderer of the millionaire businessman Mr. Roshan Vanninayake, the owner of the SHADES ready-made clothing chain, who was found murdered in a swimming pool on the third floor of a house in Pelawatte, was arrested yesterday (05) by a team of Kandana Police officers along with the woman who is said to be his wife by the Colombo Crimes Division while he was staying in the Kadawata area.
A senior police officer stated that after the main suspect was arrested at Kadawatha by the Kandana Police, the officers of the Colombo Crime Division went there and arrested his wife. The arrested suspect is a 27-year-old named Azimdeen Insafedeen. The Police Media Spokesperson’s Office also announced that the suspect, who is said to be his wife, is a 23-year-old Huswa Fazlim. The residence of the couple is mentioned in Narahenpita Dabare Mawatha.
According to the internal information of the police, the main suspect was arrested when a police team went to Kadawata from Kandana and stayed near a famous ready-made clothes shop in Kadawata. Police information stated that the suspect stayed with his wife at or near the place when the police team from Kandane arrived at Kadawatha. Police information revealed that when the Kandana police officers arrested the suspect, his wife was also nearby. Police information revealed that a relative of the main suspect’s wife had given information to an officer of the Kandana Police that the main suspect was staying near the Kadawatha ready-made clothing shop.
After the businessman was killed on the 30th, the couple tried to flee the country. He had reserved two air tickets to go to Indonesia on the businessman’s own credit card and traveled to the airport in his own car along the expressway. It was the morning of the 31st. There, the car stopped on the highway due to a technical fault. The police found the vehicle on the 2nd while it was left near a garage in Negombo. Police investigations revealed that the couple, who took the car to Negombo in an emergency vehicle, reached the Katunayake Kurana junction in the same emergency vehicle and boarded a three-wheeler to the airport from there.
The couple entered the Katunayake airport premises and prepared to travel to the Indonesian island Bali. Investigations have also revealed that they had gone to Bali in 2018. Investigations also revealed that they have not been allowed to go to Bali even though they have the flight tickets because of an Indonesian visa problem. The investigating officers revealed that they were not allowed to take off that day in the evening of the last 03. Since then, the officers of the Colombo Crime Division and the Western South Crime Division have been working hard to arrest the two. It was revealed that the couple was staying outside Colombo. Scientific evidence including phone analysis has shown that they were staying yesterday (04) in the Eastern Province.
A senior police officer mentioned that the two of them had stayed in Trincomalee that day from phone analysis information. The Colombo Crime Division was questioning this couple at length last night. There they said that they did not go to Trincomalee. Information has also been revealed that it was the wife’s grandmother who brought them both to Kadawata. It is said that these two suspects have been hiding for the past few days and it is also said that they are at their mother’s sister’s house.
The main suspect’s wife is a resident of Kolonnawa Salamulla. Investigations have revealed that the house at Dabare Mawatha in Narahenpita is the main house of the suspect. Both are Muslims and are said to have resided in Salamulla at the time of the murder.
After the plan to escape from the country failed, the two of them boarded a passenger bus from the airport and came to Colombo and from there they came to their grandmother’s house in Wellampitiya police domain in a three wheeler.
Investigations have revealed that the two air tickets were booked at a cost of 04 lakh rupees and nearly 09 lakh rupees were spent on several credit cards of the businessman. The main suspect has told the officials of the Colombo Crime Division that he knew the secret number of one of the credit cards of the businessman and that he rented a house near Wellampitiya to hide and took one and a half lakh rupees from a bank. A senior police officer said that the main suspect’s wife has obtained the passport by giving false information. The name of Tuan Putra Shariman and there is a difference between the names on her national identity card and the names on the passport.
After taking the suspect into custody yesterday (05) evening by the officers of the Colombo Crime Division, it has been found that the male suspect is directly responsible for the murder of the millionaire businessman.
A senior police officer said that it appears from the questioning of the suspect that the couple was not staying at the Pelawatte house when the murder took place as suspected in the initial investigations. The main suspect told the Colombo Crime Division officials that only he and the millionaire businessman were staying in the house at the time of the murder, the officer said. The officer further said that the suspect’s statements said that he had paid 1000 rupees and bought a pack of three contraceptive caps from a pharmacy located in Kalubowila area and had come directly to Pelawatta and his wife, who was said to be with him, had not come to Pelawatta at that time. According to the questioning of the suspect, the main suspect entered the house in Pelawatte at or around 6.37 pm on the 30th. It is also said that he has stayed in this house for about two hours. The murder happened in between.
He also said during police questioning that he got to know this businessman through a phone app. The suspect said during interrogation that the businessman was staying in Dehiwala area when he called him through the app. It is stated that the suspect told the interrogation of the officers of the Colombo Crime Division that although he was ready to meet the two at an apartment complex and talk, the businessman informed him to come to Pelawatta and accordingly he went to a pharmacy in Kalubowila and went to Pelawatta with a packet of contraceptives. The police said that although he said why he went to this house, his close relationship with the businessman and many other things during the police interrogation, scientific evidence and many other investigations will have to be done to confirm whether they are 100 percent true.
Accordingly, the material inside the used contraceptive sheath found in the house where the businessman was killed, as well as the material stuck to the outside of the sheath, were subjected to DNA testing. A senior police officer said that they will even be sent for an investigation. Not only the businessman who was killed here, but also the couple’s DNA. The officer also said that an inspection will have to be done. According to the suspect, he and the businessman were in the bath. The suspect said that he asked him for one lakh rupees saying that the money was urgent. The suspect also told the officials of the Colombo Crimes Division that the businessman said that he could not give that much money and that he would give him whatever amount was in his wallet.
He also said that his hand was also twisted there. The suspect said that he fell on the ground near the bath tub after being hit by the stick and tried to get up but could not get up. The suspect has said that he then dragged him to the swimming pool, took the wallet and the bag and went to Kolonnawa in his own car. The suspect further said that he had told his wife that he was in the middle of a big problem and that he was leaving the country for a few days and that he had to take her as the wife. A senior police officer of the Colombo Crime Division stated that further investigations should be conducted regarding the suspect’s statements to protect his wife from the accusation of murder. Therefore, they will be detained for a day or two and investigations will have to be conducted, the official said.
The officer further mentioned that since the millionaire businessman who was killed according to the statements of the main suspect, even though his family did not identify the body, the post-mortem examination has now been made possible.