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விடுதலைப்புலிகளுக்கு உதவியதாக 4 தமிழர்கள் மீது நியூயோர்க் நிதிமன்றம் தீர்ப்பு

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விடுதலைப்புலிகளுக்கு உதவியதாக 4 தமிழர்கள் மீது நியூயோர்க் நிதிமன்றம் தீர்ப்பு

4 plead guilty to helping Tamil Tigers

June 9 (UPI) -- The Tamil Tigers' top leader in the United States and three co-defendants pleaded guilty in New York Tuesday to aiding the Sri Lankan rebel group.

The U.S. Justice Department said that defendants Karunakaran Kandasamy, Pratheepan Thavaraja, Murugesu Vinayagamoorthy and Vijayshanthar Patpanathan pleaded guilty to, among other crimes, conspiring to provide material support to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the official name of the rebels, who have been designated terrorists by the U.S. government.

Kandasamy, director of the Tigers' American branch, and Thavajara, a senior procurement agent for the group, face a 20-year maximum sentence. Vinayagamoorthy and Patpanathan face a 15-year maximum sentence.

The Tigers, who formed in 1976 and started their civil war in 1983, were just recently defeated by the Sri Lankan military.

Federal authorities said Kandasamy oversaw and directed the LTTE's various activities in the United States, including raising and laundering millions of dollars for the rebels. Patpanathan assisted Kandasamy and others in the fundraising and money laundering activities.

Thavaraja was involved in the purchase of improvised explosive devices, missiles, machine guns, artillery, radar and other equipment and technology from countries around the world, including the United States, prosecutors said.

Pratheepan and Vinayagamoorthy were also involved in the attempted bribery of purported U.S. State Department officials to remove the Tigers from the list of designated foreign terrorist organizations. Vinayagamoorthy also participated in laundering LTTE money through a Swiss bank account, prosecutors said.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/06/09/4-p...64751244588352/

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