Arunachalam Chrishanthakumar, a London-based leader of the LTTE was arrested by the British police yesterday (May 6) for the second time in less than a year for alleged fund-raising activities and procurement of war material.

Also known as A.C. Shanthan, the 51-year-old man was first arrested in June 2007 under Britain's Terrorism Act before being released on bail in November.

The police re-arrested him in Swindon, Wiltshire, in a pre-dawn raid Tuesday.

Shanthan is also thought to have been close to the late LTTE ideologue Anton Balasingham, and accompanied him for peace talks in Geneva in 2006.