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[h=1]Ten Tigers jailed in Germany[/h]
The Criminal Court in Berlin convicted two women and eight men of Sri Lankan origin, living in Berlin last Friday (12) of illegally collecting funds for the LTTE.
The duration of imprisonment ranged between six to eighteen months. The names of the accused and their prison terms are as follows:
Kanapathipillai Koneswaran was sentenced to one year and three months, Sumathy Uthayakumar to seven months, Gopallapillai Jeyasangar eight months,
Balachanthiran Balasubramaniam one year and ten months, Kumanan Tharmalingam six months, Vaithilingam Jothilingham one year,
Yogarajah Srikatharajah one year, Senthilkumaran Kanthasami one year,
Tusyanthy Arunasalam nine months and Thayabaran Arumugam one year.
The convicts are aged between 32 and 60 years and five of them are German
citizens. Every LTTE member was individually represented in court by a prominent criminal lawyer in Germany. The lawyers argued that since the LTTE was no more proscribed in the EU the persons charged could not be convicted for collecting funds in Germany, as it was not illegal to do so.
more and source:
http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=116084
The Criminal Court in Berlin convicted two women and eight men of Sri Lankan origin, living in Berlin last Friday (12) of illegally collecting funds for the LTTE.
The duration of imprisonment ranged between six to eighteen months. The names of the accused and their prison terms are as follows:
Kanapathipillai Koneswaran was sentenced to one year and three months, Sumathy Uthayakumar to seven months, Gopallapillai Jeyasangar eight months,
Balachanthiran Balasubramaniam one year and ten months, Kumanan Tharmalingam six months, Vaithilingam Jothilingham one year,
Yogarajah Srikatharajah one year, Senthilkumaran Kanthasami one year,
Tusyanthy Arunasalam nine months and Thayabaran Arumugam one year.
The convicts are aged between 32 and 60 years and five of them are German
citizens. Every LTTE member was individually represented in court by a prominent criminal lawyer in Germany. The lawyers argued that since the LTTE was no more proscribed in the EU the persons charged could not be convicted for collecting funds in Germany, as it was not illegal to do so.
more and source:
http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=116084
