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NIA busts racket working for LTTE revival

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New Delhi: In a crackdown on Indo-Sri Lankan illegal drugs and arms trade racket, which allegedly working for the revival of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has conducted raids at multiple places belonging to suspects in Chennai and arrested a man.
The NIA also seized huge cache of cash, gold bars, digital devices drugs and documents, along with other incriminating material during the raid.
The agency initiated investigations into the racket in July 2022. As of now, the NIA has made fourteen arrests in the matter including the latest arrest, which was made on Thursday.

Earlier, in December 2022, 13 accused were arrested during raids in 21 locations across Tamil Nadu.
Investigations into the case have revealed that the proceeds of drugs and arms trade in Sri Lanka were received in India through hawala agents, including one Shahid Ali of Chennai. It was further found that the hawala transactions were done through hotels and businesses based in Mannadi, Chennai.
Thursday’s seizure included Rs 68 lakhs in Indian currency and 1,000 Singapore Dollars, nine gold biscuits (total 300 gram) from the shop of Shahid Ali. The NIA has also recovered Rs 12 lakhs in Indian currency from hotel Orange Palace in Chennai.
The suspect arrested following Thursday’s searches was identified as Ayyappan Nandhu. He has been found to be managing the drug trade on behalf of Muhammed Asmin, a Sri Lankan refugee and a drug trafficker who had conspired with other accused to revive LTTE through drugs and arms trade.

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April 8, 2023
Sri Lanka refutes TN leader’s claim on LTTE chief’s well-being, calls it a joke

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Colombo: Sri Lanka on Monday dismissed as a “joke” a top Tamil nationalist leader’s claim that LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran, who was killed in 2009 by the island nation’s military, was still alive.
Pazha Nedumaran, a noted nationalist leader in Tamil Nadu, told reporters in Thanjavur that the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) “is doing well” and a “conducive atmosphere prevails for him to appear now.” Sri Lanka’s defence ministry dismissed Nedumaran’s claim as a joke.
“It is confirmed that he was killed on 19 May 2009. The DNA has proved it,” Colonel Nalin Herath, Sri Lanka’s defence ministry spokesman told PTI.
In a bitterly fought campaign that began in 1983, Sri Lanka’s military ended the nearly three-decade brutal civil war in the island nation in May 2009, by killing the leaders of the LTTE.
The LTTE was fighting for an independent state for the Tamilians in Sri Lanka’s North and Eastern provinces.
Though the exact date when Prabhakaran was killed by the Sri Lankan Army was not known, his death was announced on May 19, 2009.
The then-president Mahinda Rajapaksa on May 18, 2009 declared the end of a 26-year war in which over 1,00,000 people were killed and millions of Sri Lankans, mainly minority Tamils were displaced as refugees inside the country and abroad.

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February 13, 2023
LTTE chief Prabhakaran is alive, doing well, claims TN nationalist leader

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Thanjavur: Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader of Eelam Tamils in Sri Lanka is doing well, a top Tamil nationalist leader claimed here on Monday and said a conducive atmosphere prevails for him to appear now.
In a press conference, Pazha Nedumaran, a noted Tamil nationalist leader, prefixed his declaration as a ‘true announcement’ and said the international (political) atmosphere and fierce opposition to Rajapaksas by the Sinhalese people in Sri Lanka have created the right conditions for the leader of the Eelam Tamils, Prabhakaran to emerge.
Tamil nationalist movement leader Pazha Nedumaran claims on Monday, 13 February that LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is alive and well. It was believed that Prabhakaran was slain by Sri Lankan forces in May 2009, when photos of his body were released. ⁦@TheQuint⁩ pic.twitter.com/bE6wO9QlLL
— Nikhila Henry (@NikhilaHenry) February 13, 2023
Asserting that the LTTE leader is doing well, Nedumaran said the announcement would end ‘planned’ suspicions spread about him. Prabhakaran is all set to soon announce a plan for the dawn of the Eelam Tamils in Sri Lanka, he said.
He appealed to Tamils in Sri Lanka and the Tamils living in all other parts of the world to stand together and extend him their full support. Till such time the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were powerful, they did not allow any forces inimical to India to find a toehold in the regions held by them in Sri Lanka, he said.
They not only opposed such forces but also have not received any support from such nations opposed to India, he added.
It may be recalled that Prabhakaran was killed in 2009 in the war between Sri Lankan Army and the LTTE. ‘Eelam‘ in Tamil denotes the homeland of the Tamil people.
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February 13, 2023