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British Columbia, a province in Canada has ordered an audit into a Vancouver non-profit organisation that allegedly fronts for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the Canada’s National Post reported. The B C Gaming Commission, which awards provincial gambling proceeds to community groups, said it had frozen payments to the Eelam Tamil association of B C after learning the organisation was listed in a Canadian Security Intelligence Service report as a front for the Tigers. “ We have red tagged that file and that means until we conduct a complete review, that organisation cannot access any further gaming revenue,” said Sue Thomas, a spokeswoman for the commission. “ Auditors will go in and do a complete review of that organisation to ensure that they are indeed eligible for gaming access.” The group received $ 17,000 in provincial government gaming revenue this year and $ 45,600 in 1999. According to a CSIS report, the group was among eight non-profit organisations and five companies suspected of operating as “fronts” for the LTTE. About 2 million a year was raised in Canada to finance the Tigers. Some of the money is channelled to the LTTE’s weapons procurement arm in Thailand, the report confirmed. Further funds that are collected are earmarked for humanitarian projects, but most of it ends up funding the war effort. Also named in the CSIS report was the Tamil Eelam Society of Canada, which reported $2.3 million in federal funding this year, as well as $45,000 from the Ontario government and $29,000 from municipal governments. Almost all the federal grants came from the immigration department under the banner of a language programme.
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