India, Nov. 11 -- The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is probing into a conspiracy to revive the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), has found that Sri Lankan drug kingpin C Gunashekaran alias Guna had transferred illegal drug funds to the associates of Karachi-based notorious arms and drugs trafficker Haji Salim, people familiar with the matter said.

The agency has discovered documentary and digital evidence - including crypto transactions, mobile data, and financial records linking Guna to cross-border drug trafficking, hawala networks, and LTTE's operations - to prove there was a larger conspiracy to revive the proscribed outfit both in India and Sri Lanka, the people added.

NIA made the submissions before a court on ...