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* Three Sri Lankan Tamils in Australia plead guilty to charges of funding LTTE
Tue, Dec 22, 2009, 09:58 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.

Dec 22, Colombo: Three Sri Lankan Tamils in Melbourne, Australia are to plead guilty to charges of providing money to the proscribed terrorist organization, LTTE.

Aruran Vinayagamoorthy, 35, Sivarajah Yathavan, 38, and Arumugam Rajeevan, 43, of NSW, are to plead guilty to a single charge of providing money to the LTTE, their lawyers informed the Australian Supreme Court yesterday.

In addition, Vinayagamoorthy would plead guilty to providing radio transmitters to the terrorists.

The three men were arrested in a raid in May 2007 and charged of being members of a banned organization and providing financial support to the organization.

The prosecutors have charged the men with several counts but later dropped most of the charges. They are pleading guilty to single count of providing money to a banned organization.

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