The Foreign Ministry said they were closely following the case in a German court against an LTTE suspect accused of having involvement in the assassination of former Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar in 2005.
A Foreign Ministry spokesperson said, “We have provided evidence and other material to support the case through diplomatic channels.”
The suspect, identified as Navaneethan G (40), was arrested in South Western Germany in January this year.
The federal prosecutors said he was a former member of the LTTE and that he has been accused of murder, attempted murder and for holding membership of a foreign terrorist organisation.
The suspect was filed indictment in a Stuttgard court early this month. The federal prosecutors said the suspect belonged to the intelligence unit of the LTTE from 2002 to 2009 and provided information that was used to carry out the killing of Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister in 2005.
Meanwhile, the case against the former Foreign Minister’s assassination in the High Court is expected to be terminated shortly on the request of the Attorney General. The Attorney General’s Department was to seek an abatement of the case after the last remaining suspect Muttiah Sahadevan, 62, died while in remand custody due to kidney failure, at the hospital late last month.