Leading terrorist agents arrested in Cyprus

Herath Mudiyanselage Rohan Priyantha was arrested by the Cyprus Police yesterday on information provided by the Tamil community.

According to the information he was one of the foremost agents of the LTTE. In order to transmit money to the terror outfit, H.M. Rohan Priyantha and another Sri Lankan Sinhalese woman was engaged in finding European husbands for Sri Lankan women for marriage with the aim of obtaining Cyprus citizenship for which he had been charging Euro 5,000.

Herath Mudiyanselage Rohan Priyantha’s real name was Thyagarajah and he hailed from Vavuniya. After having entered Cyprus under his real name, he re-entered Sri Lanka on a forged passport under the name of Herath Mudiyanselage Rohan Priyantha.

Everyone who knew him thought he was a Sinhalese. At the control of the video of the demonstration of LTTE at Nicosia, in Cyprus, the Police had identified the man whom they knew as a Sinhalese among the Tiger sympathizers.

Later the Police had obtained a search warrant from the Provincial Courts and entered the residence of H.M. Rohan Priyantha alias Thyagarajah.

They had found in the living room a large photograph of Prabhakaran and there was a pistol that was kept in front of the photograph which was found to be a toy.

There was a large Eelam map and a Tiger flag on either side of Prabhakaran’s photograph.

The Police also had found Sri Lankan Passports, copies of visas, applications for Refugee Status and Euro 10,000.

He was remanded for eight days pending investigation and was committed to the Police custody and is to be kept at Likavitos Police Station at Nicosia.

Agriculture Development and Agrarian Services Minister Maithripala Sirisena with Ambassador Hemantha Warnakulasuriya when they were on a mission in Cyprus, met important officers of the Police and had explained to them about the terrorist activities of the Tiger Movement and cautioned them that there are terrorist cells in Cyprus.

The Police after interrogating Priyantha alias Thyagarajah will apprehend other Tamils who are working with him to transmit money to Sri Lanka to aid and abet terrorism in Sri Lanka.

This is in sequel to the arrests of number of terrorist suspects in Italy in 2008 and a leading terrorist agent in Palermo in the Island of Sicily, Italy was arrested.

It is believed that the Secret Police in Italy is in contact with other authorities in France, Switzerland and Germany to apprehend everyone connected with terrorism.