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Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 11 (IANS) Gold smuggling accused Swapna Suresh on Saturday sparked a fresh controversy through a recent Facebook post, questioning why the Malayalam media is now only reporting on the Enforcement Directorate (ED) summons of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s son Vivek Kiran.
He highlighted that if a child of an ordinary citizen ignored the ED notice, it would trigger immediate arrest, court proceedings and public uproar.
“The father knows very well that if the ED interrogates his son and daughter properly, everything will come out clearly like the sound of bells,” he wrote, suggesting that the two were being shielded to protect the political and financial interests of the family.
Her post recalled an incident from 2018, alleging that she had gone to the house of a ‘Captain’ with her former boss – the UAE Consular General.
“The captain told him that his son works in a bank in the UAE and he wants to buy a star hotel in the UAE. At that time I thought how can a bank employee independently make such an investment, implying that the father’s abuse of position and accumulation of illegal wealth must have facilitated the deal,” Suresh wrote.
She further writes that if the CCTV of ‘Captain’s’ house would not have been destroyed by lightning, then ED can go and get the visuals and see it. And she ends her post by saying that more revelations can be expected in the coming days.
Suresh, who is currently out on bail after being jailed in an alleged gold smuggling case, was very close to Vijayan’s former principal secretary M. Sivasankar, who had retired as a senior IAS officer but had been jailed on two occasions.
Suresh took to social media after a new controversy broke out in Kerala when documents surfaced that ED had summoned Vivek Kiran in the Life Mission money laundering case.
The revelation coincides with Chief Minister Vijayan’s meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi, adding a sharp political edge to the development.
According to a report published by a leading local daily on Saturday, the ED had issued summon number KCCEDO/2023/769 to “Vivek Kiran, son of Pinarayi Vijayan, Cliff House, Thiruvananthapuram” under sections 50 (2) and 50 (3) of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The notice, signed by then ED assistant director PK Anand, directed him to appear at the agency’s Kochi office at 10:30 am on February 14, 2023, and produce documents including Aadhaar, PAN, bank details and details of properties held by him and his family.
However, Vivek did not appear before the central agency and no follow-up action was taken.
The document is listed as “active” on the ED’s official “Verify Your Summons” portal, confirming its authenticity.
The summons was issued as part of the investigation into the Wadakkanchery Life Mission housing project, which the agency alleged involved bribery of Rs 4.4 crore.
The project, funded by the UAE Red Crescent through the UAE Consulate for the 2018 flood victims, was implemented by Unitech Builders.
–IANS
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