Police said that the 41-year-old suspect is the wife of Subramaniyam Jeyaganesh alias Samiraj, a key figure in the leadership of the LTTE organization and one of the principal fund raisers operating from Europe.

Following information received that Mrs Jeyaganesh was in the country, officers of the Terrorism Investigations Division (TID) had launched investigations to arrest her.

A team of TID officers managed to apprehend the suspect on Monday (2) after she arrived at the airport to board a flight back to France, police said.

Murugesu Pakeerathy had served at the leader of the LTTE Women’s Sea Tiger Wing from 1997 – 2000 and left the country for France in 2005.

Initial investigations have revealed that she had returned to the island last month.

She is being interrogated under 72-hour detention orders after being produced at the Colombo Magistrate’s Court on Monday, police said.