 Ranetunge's foray into Journalism was as a result of an accidental meeting with Rohan Gunaratna in London during the late 1990s.Gunaratna was in Scotland, reading for his doctorate in international relations from St Andrews University, where he was a British Chevening Scholar.Gunaratna encouraged Ranetunge, who was in London, to exploit his Merchant Banking experience to initiate investigations into the financing operation of the LTTE (Tamil Tigers) in London.