Germany indicts top LTTE leader
[February 08 2011]





<P>A spokesman for the LTTE in Germany has been indicted on terrorism
charges, Germany’s federal justice authorities.

<P>Agilan W., who now holds German citizenship, was arrested in November
and indicted Jan 24. Prosecutors said he was spokesman in Germany for
the Tamil Coordination Committee, a front for the LTTE, from 2004 to
the end of 2009 and oversaw its public relations. Three other leaders
of an alleged LTTE front were earlier arrested and indicted.

<P>No date was given for the 35-year-old's trial on a charge of
membership in a foreign terrorist organisation and breaching German
export laws. That charge relates to his allegedly purchasing equipment
worth 370,000 euros ($500,000) from group funds to LTTE and sent this
gear to Sri Lanka, German media reported.

<P>The European Union declared the LTTE a terrorist group in June 2007.
Germany indicted three other activists in the TCC, Vijikanendra V.S.,
Sasitharan M. and Koneswaran T. in August.