Investigations have confirmed that a banned foreign terrorist outfit funded the Easter Sunday attacks in April 2019, the Police said today.
Police Spokesman, SP Jaliya Senaratne said that large amounts of money had been received from overseas for the attacks.
Senaratne said that investigations have now revealed that a banned foreign terrorist outfit transferred funds to the group in Sri Lanka to carry out the attacks.
He said that local businesses operated both legally and illegally had also funded the operations of the local outfit to carry out the attacks.
Senaratne said that investigations revealed a number of incidents which occurred before the 21 April 2019 attacks were linked to the bombings.
He said that the investigations were at the final stages and more arrests are expected to be made soon.
(Colombo Gazette)