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Six suspects held following tip-off:
STF busts multi-million rupee vehicle racket
The Police Special Task Force (STF) has busted a
multi-million rupee racket involving the illegal assembly of
vehicles at a garage at Pannipitiya, Kottawa last week, a senior
police officer told the Sunday Observer. A team of STF officers from
the Special Weapons and Tactics Team swooped on an illegal vehicle
assembly plant at Makumbura, Kottawa and took in for questioning six
suspects following a tip-off by the STF Intelligence wing.
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Those accusing SL have hidden agendas - Defence Secretary
Baseless allegations are levelled against Sri
Lanka continuously by certain western countries and pro-LTTE foreign
media institutions have a hidden agenda, Secretary Defence Gotabaya
Rajapaksa said. He said that the government has already responded to
those baseless allegations by rescuing nearly 300,000 civilians from
LTTE clutches,
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US avows need to focus on LTTE financing
A report analysing the situation of global
terrorism by the US Department of State has recognised the need for
Sri Lanka to focus on countering LTTE financing in the international
front, although the terror outfit has been defeated within the
country’s boundaries.
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Arraignment of five men in credit card racket:
Exposé of LTTE’s new Mafia cloak
The recent arrests of five men of Malaysian and
Sri Lankan origin in Australia, in connection with a sophisticated
international credit card skimming racket, could be an expose of the
LTTE’s transformation into a global mafia and its continuing global
criminal activities.
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