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Paris racket bared:
Tigers on trial
Twenty-two cadres of the suspected Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) went on trial Monday for running an
extortion racket among Paris’s ethnic Tamil diaspora. The defendants
include Nadaraja Matinthiran, the alleged leader in France of the
LTTE, which is accused of extorting some five million euros (US $
7.4 million) from the country’s 75,000 Tamils.
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Student assault case:
AG’s advice to be sought
Kaduwela Additional District Judge R.A. Ranaraja
yesterday directed the Police Headquarters Crime Division who is
conducting investigations into the alleged assault on SLIIT student
Nipuna Ramanayake to obtain advice from the Attorney General in
connection with their ongoing investigations and submit a
comprehensive report to court to ascertain whether there are any
other suspects in the case, on the next date, December 15.
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