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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
S. Vijay Kumar

Tamil Nadu Police bust gang raising funds for LTTE

A Sri Lankan national was detained by the immigration authorities in Chennai recently and handed over to the ‘Q’ Branch-CID of the Tamil Nadu Police. File (Source: The Hindu)

The Tamil Nadu Police have blown the lid off an international network of former members or sympathisers of the defunct Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) allegedly involved in raising funds for reviving the movement.

A Sri Lankan national, who was detained by the immigration authorities in Chennai recently and handed over to the ‘Q’ Branch-CID of the State police, revealed how the accused persons operating from European countries deployed operatives to draw huge money from dormant accounts using fake identities/documents, police sources told The Hindu on Thursday.

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