Former Law and Order and Southern Development Minister Sagala Rathnayake entrusted SDIG Latiff with the task of eradicating the drug menace in the country at the STF Day ceremony in 2016.Senior DIG Latiff took up this challenge and deployed his personnel around the country to arrest those involved in drug smuggling and peddling. Meanwhile President Maithripala Sirisena brought Organized Crimes Division under him with an intention of annihilating organized crimes
Latiff succeeded in arresting a number of suspects involved in organized crimes.The STF intelligence units which were in operation under the closer supervision of Senior DIG Latiff have uncovered that many organized crimes were being committed by underworld drug baron Makandure Madush from Dubai.
The STF intelligence officials have also bared that Madush has had over 5,000 telephone conversations with drug convicts who are serving jail terms in prisons.STF personnel also arrested a number of close associates of Makandure Madush and bared their operations in the country under the directive of Madush.