A French court has jailed Tamil Tiger militants convicted of extorting millions of dollars from the Tamil community in France. Twenty-one people were found guilty, including the leader of the Tamil Tigers in France, Nadaraja Matinthiran. Matinthiran, accused of extorting about five million euros from France's 75,000-strong Tamil community, received the longest sentence of seven years in jail. The prosecution said the Tigers imposed what was described as a revolutionary tax on Tamil immigrants to France, many of them were political refugees living in Paris and neighbouring areas. The court also ordered that the Coordinating Committee of Tamils-France be dismantled after ruling that it was a front for the LTTE. LTTE is considered a terror group by the European Union.