Canadian card scam: Tiger link probed
A routine traffic stop in Toronto has sparked a widening police probe of
a debit-card fraud that may have funnelled funds to the LTTE from Canada.
After a visiting motorist failed to halt at a stop sign Monday, police
in Scarborough's 42 Division searched his rented vehicle and found
plastic cards carrying the debit data of bank customers in the United
Kingdom.
Now four men face multiple charges of attempting to loot bank accounts
in Britain.
The four - two of them visitors from Britain and two of them Toronto
residents - are all of Sri Lankan origin.
For now, the alleged scam is being treated as a relatively
straightforward effort to steal tens of thousands of dollars from
British bank-card holders via the international network of bank-teller
machines.
But lead investigator Detective Scott Whittemore said yesterday that in
visits to two Scarborough homes, police discovered calendars and posters
promoting and lauding the LTTE, a group outlawed in Canada.
Providing it with material sup****t has been illegal since April of last
year, when Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day announced that the
Tigers had been added to Ottawa's list of proscribed terrorist groups.
The United States and the European Union have similarly blacklisted the
organisation.
Police are investigating whether any of the four men has financial ties
to the Tigers.
If the alleged fraud was intended to benefit the Tigers, it would not be
the first time crime-derived funds have been funnelled to the group, but
such connections are always hard to prove, Det. Whittemore said.
The four men were arrested when their rented car ran a stop sign and was
examined. Police discovered 42 plastic bank cards in the car, and dozens
more cards were found when police later raided a Brampton hotel and a
home on Scarborough's Ellesmere Road.
And while it was unclear how much money was actually stolen, $25,000 in
Canadian $20 bills was found in the raids, along with two laptop
computers, computer memory sticks and hardware, pinhole cameras and
pass****ts and travel do***ents. The four men will appear in court
tomorrow for a bail hearing.
Courtesy : Dailynews
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LTTE TAMIL TIGER ATROCITIES
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