Sri Lankan sleuths in Male to grill Tiger suspects

Top Sri Lankan intelligence sleuths yesterday launched a full probe in Male on the new route used by the LTTE to smuggle weapons through Maldivian waters, a diplomat said.

The five Sri Lankan detectives last evening met top Maldivian National Security officers after the Maldivian government gave permission for the Lankan sleuths to interrogate the suspects taken in after a gun-running vessel was nabbed and sunk by the Maldivian coastguard on Thursday, Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner Mohamed Ali Farook said.

An Indian crew member and four Sri Lankans detained after the vessel was sunk have been brought to the capital Male for interrogation.

Mr. Farook told The Sunday Times that the Sri Lankan detectives would have full access to the evidence uncovered so far by Maldivian security officers.