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21 get jailed for extorting money to fund LTTE
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Colombo, Nov 27 (PTI) A total of 21 LTTE activists, including the head of the outfit's wing in France, have been sentenced to jail terms ranging from six months to seven years by a Paris court after they were found guilty of extorting money from Tamils there to finance the Tigers' war in Sri Lanka.
The court also ruled that the Tamil Coordinating Committee of France, known as the CCTF, which was identified as the "legal front" of the LTTE in that country, be dissolved, the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Among the 21 convicted is the head of the CCTF and the LTTE leader in France, Nadarajah Mathinthiran alias 'Parithi', who was sentenced to the maximum 7-year imprisonment for extorting USD 7.5 million from the Tamil community under a 'special collect' conducted in 2006.

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