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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 - 6.08 GMT |
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Alleged
Singaporean LTTE arms supplier to be
extradited to US |
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A
Singaporean
businessman
accused
of
committing
terrorism-related
conspiracy
offences
overseas
including
exporting
illegal
arms
from the
United
States
to Sri
Lanka
for the
LTTE,
will be
extradited
to the
United
States.
At a
hearing
on
Monday
(02),
District
Judge
Roy
Neighbour
ruled
that
there
was
sufficient
evidence
to
justify
a
hearing
of the
offences
for
which
Balldev
Naidu
Ragavan,
47,
stands
accused
in the
US.
He is
alleged
to have
conspired
with
another
Singaporean,
Haniffa
Osman,
who is
now
behind
bars in
a US
prison
for
trying
to buy
weapons
for the
LTTE.
Haniffa,
57,
pleaded
guilty a
year ago
and was
given a
37 month
jail
term by
a
Baltimore
court.
Naidu is
said to
have,
between
February
and
September
2006,
acted as
a broker
and
middleman
between
firearm
manufacturers
and
purchasers
and/or
end-users.
The
affidavit
also
showed
that the
fugitive
had
located
his
source
of the
firearms
through
a group
of
Indonesians,
and
conspired
to
export
them
illegally
from the
United
States
to Sri
Lanka,
reported
the
Straits
Times.
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