{"id":2277,"date":"2024-12-01T20:17:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T20:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icppg.org\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2024-12-01T20:17:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T20:17:12","slug":"43-year-old-arrested-at-bia-over-terrorism-related-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icppg.org\/index.php\/2024\/12\/01\/43-year-old-arrested-at-bia-over-terrorism-related-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"43 year old arrested at BIA over terrorism-related charges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A 43-year-old man against whom an overseas travel ban had been obtained on charges of terrorism financing, was arrested upon his return to Sri Lanka at the Katunayake Airport yesterday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Police said the suspect, who had left Sri Lanka in 2009 and had obtained British Citizenship, was found to have collected money to finance a terrorist group and distributed such funds in the Colombo and Vanni areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per an overseas travel ban issued by the Colombo Magistrate\u2019s Court per a request of the Colombo North Crimes Division, the suspect was arrested upon his return to Sri Lanka yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspect is a 43-year-old, originally from Kilinochchi, who is now a holder of British citizenship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Airport Police and the Colombo North Crimes Division are conducting further investigations.\u00a0(newswire.lk)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"564\" src=\"https:\/\/icppg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-01-at-19.39.19-1024x564.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icppg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-01-at-19.39.19-1024x564.png 1024w, https:\/\/icppg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-01-at-19.39.19-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/icppg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-01-at-19.39.19-768x423.png 768w, https:\/\/icppg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-01-at-19.39.19.png 1452w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 43-year-old man against whom an overseas travel ban had been obtained on charges of terrorism financing, was arrested upon his return to Sri Lanka at the Katunayake Airport yesterday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icppg.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icppg.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icppg.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icppg.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icppg.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icppg.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2279,"href":"https:\/\/icppg.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions\/2279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icppg.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icppg.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icppg.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}