The head of LTTE in London Arunachalam Chrishanthakumar alias Shantrhan was produced before the Central Criminal Court to face charges against him under the Terrorism Act. He appeared in the Court on 24 August 2007.The police also produced Golden Lambert (the head of Tamil Youth Organisation) currently under house arrest to face charges.
Five charges were read against Shanthan. Golden Lambert is facing one charge of organising the demonstration propagating the LTTE at the Hyde Park in the Central London.
The Court has listed the hearing for 5 November 2007 and Shanthan was ordered to be held in detention until further direction at the next hearing.
With Kittu’s deportation, A C Shanthan filled the vacuum in London and has remained for almost 20 years as the hands-on leader of the LTTE who was responsible for organising LTTE events, fund raising and all other LTTE activity in the UK.
The LTTE web site eelam.com was registered in A. C. Shanthan’s name, with the LTTE HQ, Eelam House, 202 Long Lane, London SE1 as the registered address.
Shanthan was very close to Balasingham and the duo more or less ran the LTTE in London. He also accompanied Balasingham and wife Adel during their last visit to Geneva for peace talks in February 2006.
Shanthan operated via the British Tamil Association (BTA) which had uniformed goons in the LTTE Vanni police style, to police Tamil fund raising and propaganda events.
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