(January 25, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan, better known as Colonel Karuna, a leader of the Tamil Makkal Viduthali Pulighal (TMVP) was sentenced for nine months imprisonment on Friday morning at Isleworth Crown Court in West London.Karuna pleaded guilty to a criminal offence under the ID cards act for possessing a false passport.
Karuna was accused of entering the United Kingdom with a diplomatic passport under a different name.
"The prosecution said that Karuna had implicated the government of Sri Lanka and the defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa of providing the travel documents including the diplomatic passport for him to enter the United Kingdom," according to sources London.
On Thursday, Foreign minister Rohitha Bogollagama denied any involvement of the government in providing a diplomatic passport and a third person note to facilitate Karuna's visa to enter the UK.
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