Cocaine Trafficking: Barbara Jackman

Lengthy Battle Dept: Jothiravi Sittampalam was sent back to Sri Lanka after a lengthy battle with the Canadian government, which had been trying to deport him for nearly 10 years, according to CTV. His Toronto lawyer, Barbara Jackman, told .ca in a telephone interview that the government began removal proceedings against her client in the fall of 2001. They issued a removal order three years later, but did not actually remove him from the country until June 11 of this year and a lawyer for a recently deported Tamil man says his family is concerned for his well-being after his arrest in Sri Lanka earlier this month. The 40-year-old Sittampalam had long been slated for deportation because of a 1996 cocaine trafficking conviction and the fact the government had grounds to believe he was involved with A.K. Kannan -- a defunct Tamil street gang that Toronto police say he once led -- during the 1990s. As reported in the news.
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