A Sri Lankan court has remanded 15 suspects, who were ex-LTTE members and underworld gang members, in connection with a plot to assassinate Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian MA Sumanthiran and other political leaders who oppose the LTTE.
Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne today ordered the remand of the 15 suspects, who were arrested by the State Intelligence Service and investigated under detention orders, until 31 December.
According to a report in Sinhala daily Dinamina, it has been alleged that the Tamil Diaspora joining hands with underworld gang members in the South have conspired to assassinate the Tamil political leaders who are against the LTTE, the Colombo Page reported.
The Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) has uncovered details of the assassination plot planned by ex-LTTE cadres Jagadiswaran Velupullei, Thavarasa alias Samar and Pandidar, who are abroad to reorganize the LTTE.
It has been revealed that several attempts have been made to assassinate the Tamil politician Sumanthiran.
The police had informed the court that a suspect named Karthik Suleksh Kumar’s had carried a claymore mine to a car from the Kilinochchi bus stand.
The Colombo Crimes Division informed the court that the diaspora had transferred money to the bank accounts of the main suspect in the case, Francis Servian alias Dudley alias Wendran, and the CCD had summoned reports from 15 banks regarding his bank accounts.
The police informed the court that most of the suspects were drug traffickers and that the LTTE suspects had worked together with the powerful underworld leaders who had been detained in connection with the killings and robberies, to revive the LTTE.
The police had reported to the court that the suspects had recovered the weapons which were buried by the LTTE during the war, and upon questioning the police had found a claymore mine and two micro pistols and magazines.
The suspects were arrested by the Colombo Crimes Division on information received by the Intelligence Unit that weapons found by the Puliyankulam Police have been collected by the suspects to revive the LTTE.
