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SL forces recover gold jewellery from a treasure
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Colombo News Desk CND on 22 November, 2009 10:05:00
 
The valuables belonged to the civilians in the North were in the possession of
the LTTE when the troops marched in and captured the LTTE held territory earlier
in the year.
All the recovered jewellery valued at 659.5 million rupees had been handed over
to the authorities of the Bank of Ceylon and the People's Bank with the details
of their owners.
Jewellery valued at 618.7 million rupees had been given to the Peoples Bank and
the rest valued at 40.8 million rupees has been given to the Bank of Ceylon.