The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has filed a complaint with the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) against a fraudulent Twitter account purporting to be the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The false account uses the Twitter handle ‘Sri LankaMFA’ and had been posting political content confusing the public over which account was the official one.

In one such post, the fake account had posted the false news that India’s former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had passed away.

Since it was flagged by the Foreign Affairs Ministry’s official Twitter account MFA_Sri Lanka this morning, the fake Twitter account has been suspended.