Jane's intelligence review says LTTE controls a portion of Montreal's
USD 1b drug trade

(By: Walter Jayawardhana)

Citing Royal Canadian Mounted Police sources the Jane's Intelligence
Review said the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) controls portion
of US Dollar one billion drug market in the Canadian city of Montreal.
The Jane's Intelligence Review said that one of the main ways of earning
money out of its USD 200-300 million annual income of the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is narcotics smuggling using its merchant
ships, which also transports illicit arms and explosives which they
procure all over the world for a separatist insurgency in the Indian
Ocean island of Sri Lanka.

"The LTTE's chief trade in Asia is reportedly heroin trafficking,
although no verifiable evidence has been produced. According to Prof. G
H Peiris, the LTTE secures the Golden Crescent-Europe route and possibly
routes out of the Golden Triangle", the report said.