‘KP’ involved?
Woman Sea Tiger’s arrest bares global LTTE financial links – Police
by Sarath Malalasekara
The arrest at the Colombo Airport last week of a former woman ‘Sea
Tiger’ has exposed new global Tiger financing networks with continued
links in Sri Lanka. The husband of Bagrathy Murugesu, the ex-Sea Tiger
woman Commander arrested at the BIA as she prepared to board a flight to
Paris, lives in France and is identified as the main financial
controller of the LTTE’s diaspora-based global finance networks.
The husband, Subramaniam Jeyganesh, is suspected to be still
maintaining close ties with the former Tiger leader and key ‘banker’
Kumaran Pathmanathan alias ‘KP’ who was the LTTE’s main global funds
coordinator. ‘KP’ currently lives in Sri Lanka following his arrest in
Malaysia and controversial ‘rehabilitation’ by the previous regime
despite many serious charges relating to terrorism arraigned against
him.
The Terrorism Investigation Division (TID), which is currently
questioning Murugesu found these international financial linkages, the
sources said.
This has prompted a fresh probe into possible international LTTE
financing networks that may still be linked with Colombo, police sources
told the Sunday Observer.
Murugesu was arrested by Terrorism Investigations Division officers
at the Bandaranaike International Airport as she attempted to leave the
country for France.
She was produced by the TID before Colombo Additional Magistrate
Aruni Artigala on Friday.
The Magistrate granted bail to her after lengthy submissions by her,
Senior Counsel K.C. Thavarasa. She was enlarged on surety bail of Rs
200,000, had her passport impounded and was directed to appear before
court on March 17. She has also been asked to report to the police
station every fortnight.
Meanwhile, the court case against KP, arising out of a petition filed
by the JVP, will be taken up by Court of Appeal this week.
At the last hearing, Justice Vijitha Malalagoda, asked for more
information about KP’s global links. |