The bank accounts of the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO), a registered charity in Sri Lanka, were frozen last week.
The TRO in Sri Lanka has received large sums of money from its branches in several foreign locations through the banking system in Sri Lanka and continues to receive such funds, purporting to be for humanitarian projects, Central Bank said in a statement.
Since there is now grave doubt as to the purposes of these funds and there is a likelihood that these funds may be used for terrorist financing, investigations are currently in progress in this regard.
Central Bank said the Sri Lanka Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also been informed that investigations are proceeding after TRO offices have been raided by foreign law enforcement agencies.
The accounts h