British police charged two London men and two from Wales with conspiring to receive equipment that would be used by the Sri Lankan terrorist group, the Tamil Tigers.

The men were arrested in raids on April 29 and May 6 as part of a ``long-term investigation'' into funding and supporting terrorism overseas, the London Metropolitan Police said in an e- mailed statement. All four were scheduled to appear at Westminster Magistrates Court today, police said.

The four men were identified as Arunachalam Chrishanthakumar, 51, of London; Jegatheswaran Muraleetharan, 46, from Newtown, Wales; Jeyatheswaran Vythyatharan, 39, of Newtown; and Murugesu Jegatheeswaran, 33, of London.

The equipment cited in the charges included laptop computers, radios, navigation devices and batteries.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have fought Sri Lankan authorities since the 1970s in an attempt to create a separate homeland in the north and east of the South Asian island. The Tamil Tigers are designated a terrorist organization and banned by the U.K., the European Union, the U.S. and India.

Chrishanthakumar and Goldan Lambert, 30, of Croydon, were charged last year in the same case, police said. Lambert was charged with managing a meeting in support of the Tamil Tigers, in violation of the country's terrorism act; Chrishanthakumar, who was bailed, was charged with five counts of violating the Terrorism Act.