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Alleged to be one of six original founding members,〔Bowen, Fred. Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 4 January 1996 interview for (Issue Paper: Sri Lanka )〕 Loganathan Sabanayagam was the leader of the Tamil Tigers in Canada〔Equipe de Recherche sur le Terrorisme et l'Antiterrorisme, (Les principaux acteurs et la structure des TLET )〕 and a document forger. After his arrest, Canada was forced to update the security measures on its passports.〔The Sri Lanka Monitor February 9, 1994 〕 Known by the alias ''Maran'', he was a cousin to Velupillai Prabhakaran.〔Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, (Sri Lanka Alien Smuggling ), May 1996〕 He was arrested in 1992, following an investigative report in the Toronto Star uncovered his forgery ring, after police dismissed a phone call from cleaning staff in December 1991 alerting them that forgery tools had been found in his apartment.〔 Reporters Dale Brazao and Paul Watson went to meet the cleaning staff, and gathered the evidence while posing as prospective tenants.〔 Sabanayagam's partner in the forgery ring, Santhakumar Kumarasamy, was arrested in 1990 and was the first Canadian ever convicted of passport fraud,〔The Toronto Star 19 Dec. 1991 〕 but died in prison prior to Sabanayagam's charges being laid.〔 Sabanayagam, whom prosecutors argued tried to "subvert the sovereignty" of Canada,〔Toronto Star, "Passport forger jailed after insulting Canada", February 9, 1994〕 pleaded guilty to forgery and was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment followed by 18 months released on probation.〔〔 He appeared at his bail hearing wearing a Tamil Tigers shirt.〔Bell, Stewart. "Cold Terror", 2005〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Loganathan Sabanayagam」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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