The police, probing a lay preacher who was nabbed at KIA while trying to bring a large stock of sophisticated communication equipment into the country on Saturday, will seek Interpol assistance.

A senior police officer told The Island yesterday that the preliminary investigations indicated that the preacher had attempted to smuggle the communication equipment for the LTTE. He said the police believe that he could be a member of a network smuggling in equipment for the LTTE.

The equipment had been purchased from Singapore and the arrest made on a tip off, Police spokesman SSP Ranjith Gunasekera said.

The preacher’s diary and mobile phone had been confiscated, SSP Gunasekera said.