2026-02-06 / Oral Question: Financial Cybercrimes Details (Q.3/2025) 2026-02-06
Hon. Darmapriya Wijesinghe, on behalf of Hon. Rajeevan Jeyachandramoorthy, submitted a written question (No. 1012/2025) to the Minister of Public Security and Parliamentary Affairs seeking comprehensive data on financial cybercrimes in Sri Lanka. The question requests a categorical breakdown of complaints across offence types (including credit card fraud, phishing, SIM swapping, and investment scams), as well as information on whether any category has shown significant increase over the past three years. It further inquires about crime trends at both national and Northern Province levels, the existence of a centralized district/provincial monitoring mechanism, and whether such data is publicly available or shared with financial institutions.
Financial Cybercrimes: Details — Question No. 1012/2025 to the Minister of Public Security and Parliamentary Affairs:
(a) Will he inform this House:
(i) the number of financial cybercrime complaints, categorized as credit card fraud, online banking fraud, phishing, SIM swapping, investment scams, digital wallet fraud, and other related offenses, separately;
(ii) whether any particular type of financial cybercrime has shown a significant increase during the past three years;
(iii) the trends or patterns of such crimes identified nationally and in the Northern Province;
(iv) whether a centralized mechanism exists to monitor, track and classify such crimes across districts and provinces; and
(v) whether such data is publicly accessible or shared with financial institutions?
(b) If not, why?