C. M. Raveendran, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s Additional Private Secretary, reaching Enforcement Directorate (ED) workplace in Kochi on March 7, 2023, Tuesday
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C. M. Raveendran, Additional Private Secretary to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, turned up on the workplace of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) right here on Tuesday for interrogation in reference to the money-laundering case booked in relation to the alleged fee paid for the LIFE Mission housing challenge of the federal government at Wadakkanchery, Thrissur.
He reached the ED workplace round 10 a.m.
Mr. Raveendran had failed to show up before the company on February 27 for interrogation, stating that the State Assembly was in session. The company had issued one other summons on March 1 asking him to look before it on March 7. The company had earlier grilled him in reference to the money-laundering case booked following the diplomatic channel gold smuggling case.
The ED is predicted to hunt info from him concerning the alleged pay-off in awarding the contract for the LIFE Mission challenge at Wadakkanchery. The company had booked a case in opposition to the accused for cash laundering beneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
The investigation company had earlier arrested M. Sivasankar, the previous Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, in reference to the case. Mr. Sivasankar is at present in judicial custody.
The case, in accordance with the investigating company, is that an enormous quantity was siphoned off by the accused as fee from the funds launched by an abroad organisation for the housing challenge. The company contended that the cash discovered within the financial institution locker of Swapna Suresh, one other accused within the money-laundering case booked earlier, was a part of the fee the accused had acquired.
