A police spokesman in Jakarta said that Thavarajah Piratheepan, 32 has been sentenced by a court in the US, in absentia for trying to smuggle weapons to his Sri Lanka.

Thavarajah was arrested in Indonesia earlier in January, as he tried to board a flight to the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur.

On Wednesday Thavarajah was escorted by FBI agents on a flight to the United States from Jakarta's Sukarno-Hatta.

Piratheeban was convicted on terrorism charges by a New York district court for purchasing weapons in the United States and trying to smuggle them to Sri Lanka.

He was detained Jan. 4 in Indonesia trying to board a flight to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The spokesman on Indonesian Polic, Brigjen Polisi Sisno Adiwinoto, said to the BBC Indonesian Section. The convict is an international terrorist.

'Red noticed terrorist'

"He is an international terrorist and on the red notice of intenational terrorist. Indonesia is the member of Interpol and we tried to find him and we finally found him".

Spokesman also said the that it was the Indonesian security who found the convicted terrorist. "He was arrested by Indonesian security. We were working together with FBI and he was a weapon supplier. We transfer him to FBI since his crime was something to do with the United States. We worked together with FBI and therefore we extradicted him to FBI".