Kerala Speaker used to call me to flat with dirty intentions: Gold smuggling accused Swapna Suresh
Kerala gold smuggling case prime accused Swapna Suresh has revealed that State Assembly Speaker P Sreeramakrishnan used to call her to his flat for some “personal dirty intentions”, in accordance to a doc submitted by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) within the Kerala High Court.
She mentioned, “Sreeramakrishnan had called me to the flat in Marutham apartment and told me that it was his hideout. I went there along with Sarith (another accused in the gold smuggling case) to meet him. He told me about the flat’s real ownership to convince me to feel safe as he used to call me there with some personal dirty intentions.”
“As I didn’t agree to his personal interests, the role offered to me in the Middle East College was also dropped. He always kept trying to get close to her as he needed the help of consul-general for his personal affairs in the UAE,” she alleged additional in her affidavit.
Swapna gave this assertion earlier than the ED Deputy Director, Kochi, on December 16, 2020, at Women’s Jail in Attakulangara, Thiruvananthapuram.
Swapna additional mentioned, “I met him for the primary time at one of many features of the UAE Consulate, Thiruvananthapuram. He took my cellular quantity and used to ship WhatsApp messages and call me up continuously. On a number of events, he invited me to his official residence as properly.
“He mentioned that his tenure is only for a short period within which he would like to make some savings and he requested me to tell the consul-general the same. I had conveyed this message of Sreeramakrishnan to the consul-general and they got connected. Sivasankar’s (former principal secretary of the Kerala CMO) team in the CMO was aware of all illegal acts done in the UAE Consulate, Thiruvananthapuram,” she acknowledged.
She additional mentioned, “Sivasankar once told me that whatever done by him was with the knowledge and support of Raveendran (Additional Private Secretary of the Speaker) and the CM himself. They were instrumental in allotting major projects of the state government under different departments to the Uralungal Labor Contract Society without tenders and they were getting huge kickbacks for this act through various Benami names.”
Swapna can also be a main accused within the Dollar Smuggling Case.
The Kerala gold smuggling case pertains to the smuggling of gold within the state by way of diplomatic channels. It had come to mild after 30 kg gold price Rs 14.82 crore smuggled in a consignment camouflaged as diplomatic baggage was busted by the customs division in Thiruvananthapuram on July 5, 2019.
It is being probed by the Enforcement Directorate, National Investigative Agency (NIA) and the customs division.
During the probe of the Kerala gold smuggling case, the greenback smuggling case got here to mild. The case pertains to the smuggling of $1.9 lakh by UAE Consulate worker and Egyptian nationwide Khalid Ali Shoukry by way of the Thiruvananthapuram airport in August 2019.
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