Renegade Tamil rebel jailed in UK — Karuna UK Crown Court conviction

BBC News South Asia (citing Reuters and court official) · BBC News, 25 January 2008

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Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan ('Colonel Karuna') was arrested on 2 November 2007 in Kensington, London, on a Sri Lankan diplomatic passport issued under a false name. On 25 January 2008 a UK Crown Court sentenced him to nine months' imprisonment for holding false identity documents (less 32 days served on remand). In court Karuna stated the false diplomatic passport had been arranged by the Sri Lankan defence secretary in Colombo (brother of President Mahinda Rajapaksa). He was deported to Sri Lanka in approximately May 2008. Cited as the publicly-recorded reason Karuna is nameable in TLTE outputs.

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