Singaporean businessman arrested for arms deal with Sri Lanka's LTTE rebels
Thu, Oct 1, 2009, 11:02 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Oct 01, Colombo: Singapore authorities Tuesday (29) arrested a Singaporean businessman and a former Reform Party member for supporting a terrorist organization by brokering an arms deal with Sri Lankan rebel outfit, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
The 47-year-old Balraj Naidu Ragavan who was arrested at his home in Singapore is wanted by the United States government for suspected terrorist activities. He is now being detained under Singapore's Extradition Act facing possible extradition to the US.
He was produced in the courts following his arrest and the courts scheduled his extradition hearing for next Monday (October 5).
According to the Singapore police the US has made an extradition request for his involvement in a conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization
http://www.colombopage.com/archive_091/Oct125...
http://www.topix.com/forum/world/sri-lanka/T5T38L3RS8AE7T88R
Wednesday, 29 June 2011
The 26 Sri Lankan Tamils who have been sentenced to death in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case
S Nalini, 33: Arrested on June 14, 1991 with husband Sriharan alias Murugan, a hardcore LTTE militant. A local girl, she worked as a steno-typist in a private company. Nalini is the only living member of the five-member assassination squad at the blast site.
Faced the maximum number of charges -- provided cover to belt-bomb assassin Dhanu and her standby Subha. Accompanied the duo to a textile shop to purchase the churidar which Dhanu wore to conceal the bomb. Gave birth to a female child while in custody.
Santhan alias T Suthendraraja, 28: Arrested on July 22, 1991. A hardcore LTTE militant, he functioned as a vital link for the conspirators and was a confidant of Sivarasan. It was through him that Sivarasan communicated with the other accused.
Sriharan alias Murugan, 24: Arrested on July 14, 1991. Another confidant of Sivarasan and a hardcore LTTE militant. Indoctrinated Nalini and groomed her as a companion for Dhanu and Subha.
Sankar alias Koneswaran, 32: Arrested on June 7, 1991 at Vedaranyam in Tamil Nadu. Hardcore LTTE militant and Sivarasan's lieutenant. Nalini's phone number in his possession was what led the police to her.
Vijayanandan, 50: A Sri Lankan Tamil arrested on May 16, 1992. Helped Sivarasan in finding hideouts.
Ruban alias Sivaruban, 24: Arrested on May 16, 1992. A one-legged LTTE militant. Was deputed to Jaipur to find a hideout under the pretext of procuring an artificial leg.
Kanagasapathy, 74, and Athirai, 30: Both Sri Lankan Tamils. Were arrested in Delhi on July 4, 1991. Deputed by the LTTE high command to fix hideouts in the national capital if it were to be an alternative venue to carry out the assassination.
Robert Payas, 30: Arrested on June 18, 1991. A Sri Lankan who arrived in Madras under the guise of a refugee in 1984. Married a local Tamil girl. Sivarasan engaged him to fix hideouts in Pour and Kodungaiyur, on the city outskirts.
Jayakumar, 34: A Sri Lankan, arrested on June 26, 1991. Sivarasan and his team stayed in a hideout which he fixed in Kodungaiyur after the assassination.
J Shanthi, 30: Jayakumar's wife who was used to fix hideouts.
S Vijayan, 34: A Sri Lankan, arrested on July 8, 1992,
V Selvalakshmi, 32:: A local Tamil, arrested on May 16, 1992
S Bhaskaran, 65: A local Tamil, arrested on July 8, 1992. Helped in fixing hideouts.
S Shanmugavadivelu alias Thambi Anna, 48: A Sri Lankan, arrested on May 16, 1992. A staunch LTTE supporter who financed the hit squad. Harboured Sivarasan and others at Pollachi before they escaped to Bangalore after the assassination.
P Ravichandran, 28, and M Suseendran, 34: Two locals trained in handling fire arms in Jaffna. Returned with Sivarasan in December 1990. Arranged hideouts for the gang after the assassination.
Arivu alias G Perarivalan, 26: Arrested on June 19, 1991. A local Tamil. Sivarasan used him to purchase batteries for wireless sets and the belt bomb.
Irumborai, 36: A local Tamil, arrested on October 3, 1991 on the high seas off Rameswaram. Two important letters, including one to LTTE supremo Prabakaran written by Santhan, an accused who died, were recovered from him.
Bhagyanathan, 30, and Padma, 55: Nalini's brother and mother. Arrested on June 11, 1991. They were the first to be arrested. Their house in the city served as a meeting point for the conspirators. Bhagyanathan was running a printing press with the LTTE's financial assistance.
Subha Sundaram, 55: A local freelance photographer, arrested on July 2, 1991. His studio-cum-office was frequented by top LTTE leaders. Had 'deputed' Hari Babu to film the assassination. Made a vain bid to retrieve the camera from the site.
K Dhanasekaran, 46: A local Tamil, arrested on October 13, 1991. It was in his tanker that the assassination squad fled to Bangalore from Pollachi.
N Rajasuriya alias Rangan, 34: A Sri Lankan, arrested on September 29, 1991. An expert driver who shifted Sivarasan from place to place before and after the assassination. After Sivarasan, Subha and others were trapped in their Konanakunte hideout in Bangalore, he was nabbed at a busy shopping complex.
Vicky alias T Vigneswaran, 35: A Sri Lankan sentenced to five years imprisonment in the Padmanabha murder case. Travelled along with Sivarasan in the tanker to Bangalore.
Ranganath, 40: A Bangalore-based Tamil, arrested on August 28, 1991. Harboured Sivarasan, Subha and five others in his house at Konanakunte after the assassination.
Srilankan Tamil arrested on ‘terror’ charges - Australia
Thulasitharan Santhirarajah, the director of a Mebourne business college, was arrested on July 14 by the Australian Federal Police at the request of the US FBI. He appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court the same day and was remanded in custody. He is expected to face proceedings for extradition to the United States in August.
http://www.mediasyndicate.in/medsyn/20080727080330
http://www.mediasyndicate.in/medsyn/20080727080330
Tamil Man Arrested For Sexual Assault Of TTC Riders - Cananda
With the help of the public and the TTC, police have arrested a man wanted for the sexual assaults of young women getting off the bus.
Thayaruban Mylvaganam was charged late Friday with three counts of sexual assault and two counts of criminal harassment.
On August 28, an 18-year-old was sexually assaulted after exiting a bus at Steeles and Birchmount. And on Thursday, two young women, aged 22 and 17, were attacked after getting off buses at two separate Scarborough locations.
Mylvaganam was scheduled to appear in court on Saturday.
http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/57793--man-arrested-for-sexual-assault-of-ttc-riders
Thayaruban Mylvaganam was charged late Friday with three counts of sexual assault and two counts of criminal harassment.
On August 28, an 18-year-old was sexually assaulted after exiting a bus at Steeles and Birchmount. And on Thursday, two young women, aged 22 and 17, were attacked after getting off buses at two separate Scarborough locations.
Mylvaganam was scheduled to appear in court on Saturday.
http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/57793--man-arrested-for-sexual-assault-of-ttc-riders
Man accused of raping aspiring model - Australia
A SYDNEY man raped an aspiring lingerie model after setting up a fake social networking profile and promising to help her break into the industry, a court has heard.
Paul Rajendran used a bogus MySpace profile, using the pseudonym "James Carter'' to arrange a meeting with the 23-year-old woman in early March 2009.
The Indian national then raped her in a nearby office block, prosecutors allege.
Prior to the meeting in Sydney's CBD, the pair exchanged a string of emails in which Mr Rajendran falsely claimed he worked for the lingerie firm La Perla.
They consumed several drinks in the Tank Stream Bar about 7.30pm and discussed the possibility of her modelling for the company, prosecutor Eric Balodis told jurors at the start of Mr Rajendran's trial in Sydney today.
Shortly afterwards they moved to an office block in Hunter Street where Mr Rajendran laid out La Perla pictures on a desk.
"She was sitting on a chair in front of the desk. The accused came over and sat by her and kissed her,'' Mr Balodis said.
"She said `I didn't come here for that'''.
"At this stage she was so intoxicated, so drunk and so scared she was crying.''
Mr Rajendran then knelt between her legs and had sexual intercourse with the woman.
He told her afterwards: "I'll make you into a really good model if you don't tell anyone,'' Mr Balodis added.
She left the building shortly after 10pm and walked to the Royal George pub, in George Street, where the police were called.
A hospital examination later revealed the woman had a blood alcohol level of 0.14, almost three times over the legal drink-drive limit.
Mr Rajendran also faces actual bodily harm charges relating to abrasions said to have been found on the woman's back after the alleged attack.
Shortly after the alleged attack, police issued a warning to aspiring models not to use the internet to get a start in the modelling industry.
Mr Rajendran's lawyer told jurors the sex was consensual and that at no stage did he force the alleged victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to do anything against her will.
She appeared briefly in court via CCTV at the end of the first day of the trial, confirming she had been recommended to contact Mr Rajendran via MySpace by another woman and that they had exchanged emails.
The Downing Centre District Court trial continues before Judge Deborah Payne and is expected to last seven days.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/man-accused-of-raping-aspiring-model/story-e6frfku0-1225820952625#ixzz1QeccIWcm
A Tamil arrested for security breach just prior to Queen Elizabethdeclare opens new terminal at the Heathrow airport
London, 15 March, (Asiantribune.com): Mystery surrounds why the twenty
seven year old Sri Lankan Tamil Ketheeswara Uthayakumar has committed
one of the worst security breaches at London's main Heathrow Airport.
He was scheduled to appear at Uxbridge Magistrate court in West London
to face a charge of aircraft endangerment after being arrested by
police near the Northern runway last Thursday.
The security breach came less than 24 hours before Queen Elizabeth II
declared open a 4.3 billion new terminal, named as 'terminal 5' for
England's busiest airport.
Eyewitnesses told Police that Ketheeswaran Udayakumar scaled the
airport fence before running across runway 27 in front of an Emirates
Jet. Police said they arrested him after he was surrounded by armed
policemen.
According to eyewitness accounts the Police arrested him when he was
sprinting in to the path of a plane on a runway just after 2 p.m.
Since the Queen was to visit the airport to ceremonially open the
newly built runway in less than a day, the incident by the Sri Lankan
Tamil triggered a major security alert.
The man carrying a backpack allegedly climbed over a fence of
Heathrow's Northern runway, dumped the bag on the grass perimeter, and
ran into the path of an Emirates 777 Boeing jet. He was being held in
custody before being produced at Uxbridge magistrate's court, police
sources said.
The incident immediately caused flight delays and cancellations. The
partial closing down of the Northern runway caused the flight delays
and cancellations.
The incident was the second time Heathrow's security has been breached
during the last few weeks. A team of Green Peace agitators walked into
a runway last month climbed on to a Boeing 777 and unfurled a huge
banner protesting against the Airport expansion. Two days later a
group called Plane Stupid breached the security of the Westminster
parliament, climbed on to its roof and unfurled a huge banner for the
same protest. But both groups denied involvement in the Sri Lankan
Tamil incident.
The bag he was carrying has been found to have contained only clothes.
London's Metro newspaper said: "The ease with which he evaded
detection and scaled the 15 feet fence is deeply worrying for security
officials. One security insider said What if he had been a suicide
bomber and had reached the plane? The consequences could have been
catastrophic!"
http://www.mombu.com/culture/switzerland/t-a-tamil-arrested-for-security-breach-just-prior-to-queen-elizabethdeclare-opens-new-terminal-at-the-heathrow-airport-3480570.html
seven year old Sri Lankan Tamil Ketheeswara Uthayakumar has committed
one of the worst security breaches at London's main Heathrow Airport.
He was scheduled to appear at Uxbridge Magistrate court in West London
to face a charge of aircraft endangerment after being arrested by
police near the Northern runway last Thursday.
The security breach came less than 24 hours before Queen Elizabeth II
declared open a 4.3 billion new terminal, named as 'terminal 5' for
England's busiest airport.
Eyewitnesses told Police that Ketheeswaran Udayakumar scaled the
airport fence before running across runway 27 in front of an Emirates
Jet. Police said they arrested him after he was surrounded by armed
policemen.
According to eyewitness accounts the Police arrested him when he was
sprinting in to the path of a plane on a runway just after 2 p.m.
Since the Queen was to visit the airport to ceremonially open the
newly built runway in less than a day, the incident by the Sri Lankan
Tamil triggered a major security alert.
The man carrying a backpack allegedly climbed over a fence of
Heathrow's Northern runway, dumped the bag on the grass perimeter, and
ran into the path of an Emirates 777 Boeing jet. He was being held in
custody before being produced at Uxbridge magistrate's court, police
sources said.
The incident immediately caused flight delays and cancellations. The
partial closing down of the Northern runway caused the flight delays
and cancellations.
The incident was the second time Heathrow's security has been breached
during the last few weeks. A team of Green Peace agitators walked into
a runway last month climbed on to a Boeing 777 and unfurled a huge
banner protesting against the Airport expansion. Two days later a
group called Plane Stupid breached the security of the Westminster
parliament, climbed on to its roof and unfurled a huge banner for the
same protest. But both groups denied involvement in the Sri Lankan
Tamil incident.
The bag he was carrying has been found to have contained only clothes.
London's Metro newspaper said: "The ease with which he evaded
detection and scaled the 15 feet fence is deeply worrying for security
officials. One security insider said What if he had been a suicide
bomber and had reached the plane? The consequences could have been
catastrophic!"
http://www.mombu.com/culture/switzerland/t-a-tamil-arrested-for-security-breach-just-prior-to-queen-elizabethdeclare-opens-new-terminal-at-the-heathrow-airport-3480570.html
Two pro-LTTE activists arrested in Paris
Two pro-Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) activists were arrested in Paris on June 4 following the death of Ramesh Sivarupan who is believed to be a member of the Ruthrakumar faction of the LTTE, according to informed sources, reports Sunday Observer. The sources said that Ramesh Sivarupan was reportedly kidnapped and taken in a van from his residence in Paris and was found near his house after few days with injuries. He succumbed to injuries at a hospital in Paris on June 3. Thambiah Ganesh and Kuppilan Ravi, believed to be members of the Nediyavan group of the pro-LTTE faction have been taken into custody by the Police in Paris in connection with the death of Sivarupan, sources said. A week before, the Nediyavan faction set ablaze thousands of copies of Thainilam, a newspaper in Paris printed by its rival Ruthrakumar faction. The rivalry between the two factions had spread to several parts of Europe with the members of each faction looking for each other, the sources said. According to sources, the conflict between the two factions sparked off following the annihilation of the LTTE in Sri Lanka in 2009. The two factions are demanding that the assets held by the LTTE abroad should be shared, apart from their new ideologies, informed sources said. V. Ruthrakumar, a lawyer by profession domiciled in the United States is the ‘architect’ behind the setting up of the so-called ‘Transitional Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE)’ of his faction. Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu Police had advised the Union Government of India not to grant permission for Malaysian Tamil politician P. Ramaswamy to arrive in Tamil Nadu, sources said. The Tamil Nadu State Government is due to hold an International Tamil Literary conference in Coimbatore later this month. However, Tamil Nadu Police which had scanned the background of the Malaysian politico Ramaswamy has instructed the Union Government of India to prevent his entry into Tamil Nadu as he was a hardcore LTTE supporter and criticised even the Government of India for its stance against the LTTE, the sources said. |
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