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NEWLY OPENED “uStrike” BOWLING ALLEY IN WALES IS ACTUALLY AN ALLEY TO LAUNDER LTTE TERRORIST FUNDS SAY TAMILS

By Walter Jayawardhana

Sri Lankan Tamil sources in London charged that the State of the Art Bowling Alley newly opened in Wales at the expense of millions of pounds is actually an alley established to launder terrorist funds of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

The four lane bowling alley, officially managed , by Devika Muraleetharn , wife of one LTTE suspect of the three arrested by the anti-terrorist units of the London and Wales Police in a dawn raid few days ago, was recently quoted in a local paper as saying, “"We are very excited, we have had a lot of good feedback from a wide spectrum of people from youngsters up to 70-year-olds.It is brand new for the whole of Mid Wales, there is nothing else like this in the area," hyping up the allegedly millions of pounds worth bowling alley.

Anti-LTTE broadcaster of the London based Tamil Broadcasting Corporation said on Thursday, (May 1) “ We are carrying a radio political discussion at 8 p.m. tonight to allege that the bowling alley worth at least ten million pounds has been installed by the Muraleetharans to launder money here in the United Kingdom.”

He said the discussion will be conducted by him and the station’s political analyst Vishvalingam Shivalingam during two hours and the alleged money laundering will their main topic. Their Thursday night political discussion in Tamil languagewill be broadcast all over the world through the internet, he said.

The County Times, a local newspaper of the New Town, where the Muraleetharans started their new business said, “The new four-lane state-of-art bowling alley, uStrike, is based on the third floor of Agricultural House in Newtown (opposite the Pryce Jones building). The bowling alley is the idea of Devika and Muralee Tharan, who are excited at the prospect of bringing a new form of entertainment to Mid Wales.”

For bookings at the bowling alley the newspaper requested the readers to contact the telephone: 01686 622688

The three suspects arrested by the British police will be at the Paddington Green Police station under interrogation until next Tuesday. Few days ago, Jegatheeswaran Muraleetharan (46) of New Town in Wales, Vithy Tharan(39) of Powys, Wales and Murugesu Jegatheeswaran (33) of Mitcham, Surrey of South West London were arrested by anti-terrorist units of the Metropolitan Police and Wales Police with the colloboration of the Scotland Yard on suspicion of engaging in terrorist activities.

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