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The Police gave the names of the arrested persons as Bala Reuben alias Reuben aged 22 of Vavuniya district in Northern Srilanka and Nallathambi Jayasheelan alias Sheelan aged 25 belonging to Sangana district of North Jaffna.

The police inspector of Kankanady rural station Jayanth Shetty and Mangalore North Police Inspector Umesh Shet apprehended them in a city lodge on  a tip off operation carried out today. Police Sub Inspector Narayan Byndoor was also involved in the operations. Speaking to Mangalorean.Com Jayanth V Shetty preferred to call the duo as 'Associates of LTTE'.  The tip off came from the internal sources of the police and the suspicion came stronger when they were speaking in Tamil on the phone.
 
The police have also seized 11 credit and debit cards issued by various banks, and gold ornaments of worth Rs 3 lacs. They have also seized a duplicate passport issued on the name of certain Gunaselvan.

Upon primary investigation, the accused have confessed on using the credit cards to buy gold ornaments in Mangalore and Karkala as directed by another Srilankan associate from Bangalore.
 
It is also learnt that one person had arrived in Chennai from Srilanka in 2004 and another person was arrived in Bangalore in January 2007. The accused along with third person were engaged in buying Gold using duplicate credit cards and were funding the operations of Liberation of Tamil Tigers Eelam(LTTE). The police have found in the address book of the seized mobile phones, the telephone numbers of various persons living across the world and it is now suspected that the duo were part of a large network of unlawful activities. A case has been registered by the Mangalore north police and investigation is on

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