ECLI:NL:RBSGR:2011:BU9716

Rechtbank 's-Gravenhage · 21-10-2011 · zaaknummer 09/748802-09 (English translation)

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The court acquits the defendant of participating in an organisation the object of which is the commission of terrorist offences. Further, the prosecution is barred from prosecuting parts of count 1.B., and for the remainder of that count acquittal will ensue. The defendant is also acquitted of charges 5 and 6. The court declares legally and conclusively proved that the defendant committed the offences he is charged with in counts 2, 3 and 4 and that the proven facts constitute: with regard to count 2: Participation as a leader in an organisation the object of which is to commit offences; with regard to count 3: Participation as a leader in the continued activities of an organisation proscribed by law; with regard to count 4: Complicity in repeatedly offending against the provision laid down in article 2 of the Sanctions Act 1977, committed intentionally. Custodial sentence for a term of five years. The defendant was the leader of the TCC branch in the Netherlands. The TCC is one of many organisations falling within the scope of the International Secretariat of the LTTE in Sri Lanka and therefore formed part of the criminal and proscribed organisation, the LTTE. The LTTE used the Tamil diaspora for fundraising purposes, which funds this organisation then used to achieve its aims in Sri Lanka. With his activities the defendant participated in the criminal organisation in the Netherlands. This organisation in the Netherlands was predominantly involved in fundraising amongst fellow Tamils. To this end the organisation kept, in a very structured manner, lists of Tamils living in the Netherlands, recording who met the financial obligations and who did not.

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