A tiger suspect who supplied weapons to the LTTE outfit during the war against Sri Lanka has accepted that he is guilty. He has done so in the US Federal Court.
37-year-old Pratheepan Nadaraja is the last of six Canadians to appear for sentencing over a Toronto-based network that conspired to help the Tamil rebels acquire, among others things, surface-to-air missiles.
Acting under the direction of senior rebel leaders in Sri Lanka, the group traveled to New York from Toronto to buy $1-million of SAM missiles that were to be shipped to the island and used to shoot down fighter planes. But the conspirators ended up negotiating with an undercover informant, who recorded their conversations.
Nadarajah was arrested in Toronto in August. Six suspects including Nadaraja had been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment by the US Federal Court. The Canadian National Post newspaper said that Nadaraja has submitted a letter of apology with the aim of getting his punishment reduced.
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