KP exposes how MGR and Indira Gandhi supported LTTE

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Former prominent Liberation Tigers of Eelam (LTTE) leader Kumaran Pathmanathan, who was the chief international financier and helped smuggle weapons for the terror outfit, spoke to WION in an exclusive interview. KP, as he was known, took over leadership of the LTTE following the death of Velupillai Prabhakaran and was wanted in India in connection with Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination.

Ironically, as KP revealed, it was Rajiv Gandhi’s mother Indira Gandhi who asked RAW to aid LTTE. In his heydays, KP was a reclusive, overseas financier for the LTTE based in Thailand and avoided capture by constantly changing addresses and aliases. He would later repent and become an orphanage father.

He also revealed that former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran, popularly known as MGR, supplied the terror outfit with money.

KP was the subject of a worldwide manhunt, with organisations including the CIA and MI-5 on his tail.

He is believed to possess crucial information about the LTTE’s vast international assets. A former CBI inspector, who took voluntary retirement in 1997, had alleged that the explosives used in the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi were sent to Chennai from Singapore by KP.

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malik Monday, 22 May 2017 11:05 AM

This is not new Information. We all knew this old facts before. MGR did it in public

M'arachchi Monday, 22 May 2017 11:30 AM

This is the first time I heard that KP sent weapons to Tamil Nadu harbors and which was later dispatched to Sri Lanka

Don Juan Monday, 22 May 2017 11:47 AM

Ultimately Gandhi family paid the price. It is sad that IG was not living to see how RG was killed.

Appu Monday, 22 May 2017 11:53 AM

India always wanted to destroy SL future. Unfortunately no leaders able to tell them to off via DM Android App

Lord Wolfstein Monday, 22 May 2017 12:07 PM

KP is no longer behind bars, because he knows too much about corrupt powerful politicians and he is also able to pay for them for his freedom.

manithan Tuesday, 23 May 2017 08:11 AM

But why this man is not arrested while 1000 of innocents tamil youngsters are suffering in the jail for years

Ajja Tuesday, 23 May 2017 08:27 AM

That is why Indira,Rajiv,MGR,Jayalalitha,Prabakaran dead and gone in fact 03 of them died under tragic circumstance.

ganesh Tuesday, 23 May 2017 01:12 PM

KP you took all that assistance from all of them and now are showing them in bad lights after so many years. As if you are a saint

ceylon Tuesday, 23 May 2017 03:33 PM

who got your gold and money . via DM Android App

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KP exposes how MGR and Indira Gandhi supported LTTE

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