Three men from Melbourne, Australia today (Dec 22) have indicated they would plead guilty to charges of providing assets to LTTE, The Age website reported.

Lawyers for the men told the Victorian Supreme Court their clients would plead guilty once the prosecution filed a new list of criminal counts.

Aruran Vinayagamoorthy, Sivarajah Yathavan and Arumugam Rajeevan, who were not in court, have already had terror-related charges dropped.

They were arrested in 2007 and are on bail.

Nick Papas, SC, said today if no evidence was lead by the prosecution on a third charge, Vinayagamoorthy would plead guilty to two charges of making assets — money and electrical components — available to a "proscribed entity".

He noted that nothing had yet been resolved between the parties about the facts relating to the charges.

Lawyers for Yathavan and Rajeevan indicated they would each plead guilty to one similar charge involving money.
Prosecutor Mark Dean, SC, told Justice Paul Coghlan the case looked able to be resolved.

Another judge of the court in 2007 questioned whether the prosecution could convince a jury that the LTTE was a terrorist organisation.

In March this year, the terror-related charges were dropped.
The case will was adjourned until Thursday (Dec 24).