The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has reportedly requested C.M. Raveendran, additional private secretary to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, to current himself at its Kochi workplace on Friday.
The transfer assumed a measure of political and authorized implications for the State authorities in opposition to the backdrop of the arrest of M. Sivasankar, former Principal Secretary to Mr. Vijayan, by the ED as a part of its probe into the cash laundering and layering points of the UAE gold smuggling case that has convulsed the LDF authorities.
The ED was tight-lipped whether or not it had summoned Mr. Raveendron the idea of Mr. Sivasankar’s assertion to investigators. The ED appeared poised to lengthen its anti-money laundering probe into the official pursuits of Mr. Sivasankar, he was in authorities service.
The ED had additionally sought particulars of at 4 mega-projects promoted by the federal government. The schemes had concerned dealings with international officers and corporations.
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