UKSL Sanctions designation

Vinayagamoorthy MURALITHARAN

Individual · designated 24 March 2025

Designation identifiers

UKSL unique ID
GHR0151
OFSI group ID
16834
Designation type
Individual
Date designated
24 March 2025
Last updated
9 April 2025

Regimes

  • The Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020

Designation sources

  • UK

Sanctions imposed

  • Asset freeze
  • Travel Ban
  • Director Disqualification Sanction

Official reasons

  • Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan, also known as Colonel Karuna Amman, is an involved person within the meaning of the Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020 on the basis that he has been and remains responsible for an activity that amounts to serious violations and abuses of an individual's right to life and right not to be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Specifically, LTTE forces and a breakaway pro-government fraction of the LTTE ‘Karuna Group’, under Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan’s command, were directly involved in illegal killings and torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, during Sri Lanka’s 26-year-long armed conflict.

Other information

  • The Director Disqualification Sanction was imposed on 09/04/2025.
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