Two senior LTTE leaders, who are alleged to have helped more than 500 Tiger cadres to escape from Trincomalee and then to leave the country during the height of the military operations, were arrested by the Batticaloa police.
Police said Mutukumar Alageswaran and Thangarasa Thayalan had rented out two houses in Batticaloa to provide accommodation to LTTE cadres fleeing Trincomalee and later sent them abroad.
They said the two cadres had transported the escapees to Colombo in a Van before sending them to West Asian countries through a Foreign Employment Agency in Borella using money provided by the LTTE. Police said the Van which had been sold to a businessman in Kandy was also found by the police.
