Intelligence agencies in hunt for key LTTE arms
dealers & front activists
Intelligence agencies in several
countries are now on a hunt for several high-profile LTTE front
agents cum arms dealers, with reliable suspicions of transnational
terrorist activities including drug trafficking and human smuggling,
informed sources said citing latest reports received.
According to these sources
intelligence agencies are on the track of LTTE terrorist agents who
are alleged to have links with many active militia and terrorist
organizations abroad. These agents had worked clandestinely, based
in foreign locations, aiding and abetting in many crimes against
humanity perpetrated by the LTTE. This hunt is a combined effort of
the intelligence circles in several countries, along with the
concerned law enforcement agencies, the sources further said.
This tracking ;points to determined
and coordinated efforts of intelligence agencies, which are fast
shrinking the space for terrorists, their dealers and front groups
to function with ease.
According to reports, Sivarasa
Pirundaban alias Achchudan alias Suresh, Ravi Shanker Kanagarajah
alias Shangili, Bahitharan alias Bhavi, Narendran Rathnasabapathi
alias Naren, Ganeshruban alias Ruban, Ponnaiah Anandarajah alias
Aiyya alias Rajah alias Aiyyanna are alleged to be under
intense scrutiny.
Achchudan has provided LTTE
with technical assistance and training for its pilots on air suicide
missions in 1998 including the 2003-2004 CFA period. He is alleged
to have co-coordinated the LTTE's air raids in Colombo via satellite
communication from his overseas base station. According to available
reports, Achchudan owns many air power related assets
overseas.
Ravi Shanker alias Shangili is
a Sri Lankan passport holder who had claimed bogus asylum to evade
Canadian immigration authorities. He is a key LTTE gunrunner also
allegedly engaged in human smuggling, who owns three vessels which
are currently under operation and registered in Panama. According to
informed sources, these vessels were used as floating LTTE
warehouses cum armories. Shangili also runs a LTTE network
with agents based in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
Meanwhile, intelligence agencies have
also turned the spot light on Bhavi, another key LTTE figure
who runs the terrorist outfit's Far Eastern based illegal
activities, involving its shipping fleet. He is also said to own a
large share of LTTE's overseas assets including business ventures in
real estate and shipping.
Ruban is also said to own a
large share of LTTE's overseas assets including real estate, in East
Asian countries.
Naren is another key figure of
the LTTE's foreign procurement arm with diversified businesses in
real estate and share-markets. Allegedly involved in many illegal
arms procurement deals, Naren has reportedly twice been
deported by Singaporean authorities.
Further information on the activities
of these key LTTE arms dealers will follow, as intelligence services
close in on them.
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Ravishanker Kanagarajah alias Shangili |
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Sivarasa
Pirundaban alias Achchudan alias Suresh |
