A Sri Lankan Tamil national jailed over fraud charges in Norway

A Tamil person has been jailed for more than a year on tax, Company fraud charges in Norway. Known as Mr.AP, Sinsenveien 4C, Oslo, a former Airport Employee was sentenced in Oslo recently to one year prison and also ordered to pay reparation of over NOK 300,000. Tamil community in Oslo said the jail sentence sent a strong message to Tamil activists in Norway.

"Both Inland Revenue and the Police (court) view tax fraud very seriously. "Inland Revenue has specialist staff working on uncovering tax evasion and Company registration fraud, and those who set out to defraud the system will be caught," One Source said.

Mr.AP was Norwegian National deported from Sri Lanka end of last year after accused of being a Tamil Tiger sympathieser, visa fraud and worked for Tamil Tiger Control area in Vanni, Srilankan Tamil Resource Experts Source in Oslo said.

The case in Sri Lanka is extraordinary in that at the time of the offenses the Tamil Tigers was not a banned group in Sri Lanaka because of peace talks being undertaken at that time.

Norway was asked by the Srilankan president and the LTTE to take upon ourselves the role as neutral third party on the talk but exploited by the Government of Srilankan and Tamil Tigers.

LTTE mean The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), also known as the Tamil Tigers is a Tamil guerrilla organization operated in Sri Lanka.

norwaynews.com