Three Australian men accused of supplying one million dollars to Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger separatists have avoided immediate jail time.
Arumgan Rajeevan, 41, from NSW and Melbourne men Aruran Vinayagamoorthy, 35 and Sivarajah Yathavan, 38 pleaded guilty last year to providing money to a terrorist organisation.
Vinayagamoorthy further pleaded guilty to providing electronic components to Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam - or Tamil Tigers.
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The trio were arrested in 2007 following an Australian Federal Police investigation.
The men were originally also charged with being members of a banned terrorist organisation, but last year the prosecution dropped all terrorism charges.
In sentencing, Victorian Supreme Court Justice Paul Coghlan released the men on a $1000 good behaviour bond.
Yathavan and Rajeevan were each sentenced to one year in jail but were released on the bond for three years.
Vinayagamoorthy was jailed for two years but was released on a four-year bond.
Justice Coghlan said he was satisfied each of the men were directly connected to and knew they were dealing with Tamil Tigers.
He says they would have known at various times it had a reputation as a terrorist organisation.
