Tweet The Court of Appeal for British Columbia has upheld a six month prison sentence imposed on a former Sri Lankan refugee in Canada for terrorist activity financing. In 2008, Prapaharan Thambaithurai solicited funds from members of the Tamil community in Vancouver to support the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a designated terrorist group in […]
Tweet The assets of two Tamil groups with alleged ties to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were ordered forfeited to the federal government of Canada by the Federal Court of Canada because the assets were owned or controlled by a terrorist group. The two groups, World Tamil Movement of Ontario and World Tamil […]
Tweet The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld the conviction, and doubled the sentence of, Mohammad Khawaja, an Ottawa native, for terrorist financing and other terrorism-related charges. Calling Khawaja’s 10½ year sentence “manifestly unfit”, the Court substituted his previous sentence to a sentence of life imprisonment plus 24 years to be served concurrently. Khawaja is […]
Tweet The Federal Court of Canada has ruled that a security certificate declaring Mohammed Harkat inadmissible to Canada under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act is valid because Mr. Harkat’s ties to terrorist organizations pose a danger to the security of Canada. Harkat’s security certificate is the first to be upheld in Canada. The Court found […]
Tweet FINTRAC issued its 2010 Annual Report to Parliament today and among the highlights in this year’s report are the following: FINTRAC made 579 disclosures of information that it suspected may be relevant for investigating threats to Canada’s national security, terrorist financing or money laundering; Approximately 63% of the disclosures of information were made to […]
Tweet Convicted terrorist Omar Khadr has been sentenced to 40 years in prison by a U.S. military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay. Under a plea agreement he will serve eight years in prison. Khadr may apply to serve the remainder of his sentence in Canada after one year. The government is not obliged to agree to […]
Tweet Canada has introduced new immigration legislation to further criminalize the smuggling of foreign nationals into Canada, particularly where there may be a connection to terrorist financing. The Preventing Human Smugglers from Abusing Canada’s Immigration System Act (Bill C-49) gives the Minister of Public Safety the competence to designate the arrival of a group of foreign […]
Tweet Three Canadian citizens, Hiva Mohammad Alizadeh, 30 and Misbahuddin Ahmed, 26, both of Ottawa and Khurram Syed Sher, 28, of London, Ont., have been charged in an alleged terrorism plot in Canada. Alizadeh, the alleged ring-leader of the group, is also charged with terrorist financing for allegedly making property or financial services available to […]
Tweet A former refugee from Sri Lanka, Prapaharan Thambithurai, pleaded guilty to terrorist financing in British Columbia Supreme Court and received a lenient six-month sentence today. He is the first person in Canada charged with terrorist financing under Canada’s Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act. Thambithurai admitted raising funds for the Liberation Tigers […]