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Bineesh Kodiyeri has been requested to look earlier than the company on Oct. 6
The Enforcement Directorate (ED), probing the funds concerned in a narcotics racket that was lately busted by Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in town, has summoned Bineesh Kodiyeri, son of Kerala CPI(M) State secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan for interrogation. He has been requested to current himself earlier than the company in town on October 6, Tuesday.
The NCB had busted a narcotics ring and arrested two peddlers from a flat in Kalyan Nagar on August 21 – Mohammed Anoop and R. Ravindran, each from Kerala. NCB sleuths had seized 145 Ecstasy tablets from the flat. Their interrogation and follow-up motion primarily based on the leads they supplied led to massive seizures and arrest of one other peddler Anikha. D, whose clientèle included many from the Kannada movie business.
The ED, which is wanting into the funds of those peddlers and their sources for cash laundering and hawala transactions, had lately carried out an audit of their funds, questioned them and recorded their statements at Parappana Agrahara Central Prison, the place they’re presently lodged.
“Mohammed Anoop in his statement has said Bineesh Kodiyeri had lent him ₹50 lakh. We will question him as to what are his links with a peddler, for what purpose was the money given, what was the source of this money and whether he has declared it in his financial statements,” a senior ED official mentioned.
Gold smuggling case
The ED had earlier questioned Bineesh Kodiyeri in reference to the gold smuggling case in which gold was being smuggled by diplomatic channels on the Thiruvananthapuram airport, in Kerala on September 9.
In paperwork submitted to a court docket in Kerala, the ED has claimed there are suspicions that the accused in the drug racket busted by NCB in Bengaluru might have helped accused in the gold smuggling case in Kerala.
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