<b>London terrorist cadre arrested in Geneva</b>
Saturday, 25 February 2006 - 2:36 AM SL Time
An anti-peace talks protest held in Geneva was disrupted and the chief organiser was arrested by the Swiss police for several criminal offences, including that of being in the country `illegally`. Virajah Ramaraj, (ENDLF Office, 131 Pinner Road, Harrow, HA1 4EU UK) a former member of the PLOTE the current head of international operations for the ENDLF paramilitary group was arrested outside the United Nations offices in Geneva on Wednesday, 22 February 2006. The ENDLF operates under the Karuna banner and has carried out several attacks against civilians in eastern Sri Lanka. Sources from Geneva reported that as only a handful of paramilitary supporters and sympathisers had took part in the `sideshow`, frustrated organisers resorted to ranting filth in order to get attention. They seem to have received their due from the Swiss police who were on high alert.
`The police officers had initially approached Ramaraj to apprehend him for anti-social behaviour,` sources added. Only then did the police officers become aware that Ramaraj was in the country illegally.
Ramaraj who did not have the legal documents to be in Switzerland had made his way to the city via Germany with the help of his contacts. Police officers were astonished when they learned from their computer records, that Ramaraj had in fact been on their most wanted list for several years.
A number of the offences for which the police had been searching for him date back to the days when he was a resident in Switzerland. `Back then he was a notorious criminal and was known as drug dealer Mustapha,` said a Swiss Tamil who was delighted with the news of the arrest.
Ramaraj who was active with several Eastern European underworld gangs was being investigated for drug trafficking, people smuggling and credit card fraud amongst a whole host of other criminal offences, when he decided to flee to the United Kingdom and file for refugee status.
`Together for drunk and disorderly behaviour, being in the country illegally and his past crimes, Ramaraj may be expecting to serve a lengthy prison sentence,` said a Swiss legal expert.
Truth about TBC breakdown Startling revelations are surfacing in the `breaks in` news of the TBC radio. We, a group of failed asylum seekers are living in the UK with fear of arrest and deportation to Sri Lanka at any time. Mr.Ramraj assured us to obtain visas illegally using his association with the MP for Harrow , and the Councillor, Harrow . In fear of returning to Sri Lanka, three of us barrowed from friends and paid him `A35000 each in order to get the visa. However he could not help us in regularising our status as mentioned. Therefore we asked him to refund the money. He started to threaten us to inform the Enforcement officials of the UK Immigration Service about our status in this country. He further said that we were from the LTTE and will inform to the UK Police that we were threatening him.
Despite this threat, we continued to pressurise him to get the money back. Then recently he asked us to wait in the midnight of 22nd of May 2005 in front of Domino Pizza, in Rayners Lane area. When we went there, he asked us to follow him. We went near a parked car (Metallic Green, R4 JRT) in the Warden Avenue. Then he gave us electronic equipments of possibly radio station and said that get your money from selling those equipments. The Other day we heard the news that the TBC Radio Station was broken in. Later we got to know that he made a complaint at the Harrow Police Station that the LTTE suspects broke in his radio station. In another interesting thing that the same Mr.Ramraj, one day had given money to one of another friends of us to buy a pay as you go sim card. Then Mr.Ramraj asked him to call to his Radio Station as well as to his mobile number using a phone with the same sim card frequently. Our friend was not aware as to why Mr.Ramraj asked him to do so. Now we understand that the purpose of this is to manipulate and complain to the Police about the LTTE threat and to claim insurance falsely. In the recent news in his
www.nitharsanam.net,
www.vizhippu.net , the same phone number has been mentioned in relation to the `LTTE threat story`.
We also learnt that he had a history of cheating the Insurance companies in the year of 2001 and 2003 respectively. If the UK Immigration Service and the Police can give us guarantee not to remove from the UK, we are happy to assist the Police or the relevant officials in this regard. Please public this in your newspaper. Regards T.Cheran
Source(s)
• Island
• Upali News Group
• Dushy Ranetunge in Celigney
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