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Background to the US case

11th of December 2020, a criminal case was filed in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles against three people namely Mohamad Naufar, Mohomad Anwar Mamed Riskan and Ahamed Milhan Hayathu Moahmed regarding the 2019 easter attacks in Sri Lanka. The case was filed after a nearly two-year investigation by the FBI. The matter is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Annamartine Salick, George E. Pence IV and Christine M. Ro of the Terrorism and Export Crimes Section, and Trial Attorney Alicia Cook of the National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section