A Singaporean has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for trying to funnel arms to LTTE.

Forty-eight-year-old Balraj Naidu was sentenced yesterday (16) in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. He was convicted in October of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, Washington Examiner reported.

Federal prosecutors say Naidu was part of a conspiracy to buy weapons for the LTTE. The State Department designated it as a terrorist organization in 1997.

Prosecutors say Naidu tried to buy $900,000 in weapons from an undercover business in Maryland.