NSCN-IM refutes Indian intelligence reports
Source: Hueiyen News Service / Newmai News Network

Dimapur, June 04 2011: Refuting a newspaper report that two Thai nationals arrested from Kolkata airport a few days ago with a huge amount of cash were carriers of the NSCN-IM, the Naga outfit today countered it by terming the report as "a matter of surprise" .

The news report had said, Customs officials at Kolkata airport seized $60,000 in cash from Amphai Thongthang, a 33-year-old Thai woman who landed in Kolkata from Bangkok accompanied by her sister Parcee Thongthang.

"Thongthang was handed over to the revenue intelligence officers who found that Thongthang, the widow of a Naga youth, was supposed to deliver the cash to an NSCN-IM operative.

A probe has also revealed that her husband was a carrier of a Naga rebel outfit.

Thongthang carried on her husband's work after he died in November last year.

Investigation revealed that she got the cash from a Naga night club owner in Bangkok," the news report said.

"Intelligence officers believe that NSCN-IM, gets a major chunk of its total funds from Thailand and the Philippines where it enjoys considerable clout," the news report added.

Reacting to this news item, the NSCN-IM on Saturday said, "The report in some papers that two women from Thailand namely Amphai Thongthang and Parcee Thongthang are NSCN operatives has come as a matter of surprise.

The Naga outfit only admitted that the two Thai women have in-laws in India who happens to be Nagas.

It is a matter of family relationship, a link that nobody can deny to them.

"The NSCN, therefore, strongly refutes the Indian intelligence's allegation that links the two Thai women to the NSCN," the press note of the Naga outfit said today.

It is simply a fabrication of the Indian intelligence to counter the organization in a manner bereft of any concrete evidence other than fabrication, the press communique of the NSCN-IM said.

The NSCN is involved with massive expenditures.

But the expenditures are met by collection from people's contributions in the form of taxes and other commercial establishments in Nagalim, it added.

The NSCN's political campaign across the world, the outfit clarified.

Any other conclusion made by the Indian intelligence against this goes in line with the usual practice of going overboard to smear the NSCN's name, the Naga outfit reacted.

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