The NIA filed the first chargesheet since some of the accused were planning to move court for bail citing their 6-month long judicial custody.
The Customs Department informed the court that suspended IAS officer M Sivashankar, one of accused in the Kerala gold smuggling case, had travelled abroad seven times with Swapna Suresh, the other accused in the case.
Lodged in a women’s prison in the state capital under Cofeposa (Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act), recently, the customs had issued a directive to the jail that it should be informed about anyone visiting her and a customs official will accompany the...
The agency said its investigation so far revealed Sivasankar, the fifth accused in the case, indulged in criminal activities and committed scheduled offences. Sivasankar was arrested by the ED on October 28 and is under judicial custody.
Kerala DGP (prisons) has ordered a probe into gold smuggling accused Swapna Suresh's application seeking protection while in judicial custody.
Seeking protection, Swapna Suresh, prime accused in the gold smuggling case, moved a Kochi court on Tuesday.
After recording his arrest in Ernakulam district jail, Customs has moved an application for his custody. In the custody report it said it has got incriminating evidence suggesting his involvement in the crime. For the last three months, Sivasankar maintained that though he knew Suresh as a friend,...
The move comes a day after a special court for PMLA cases here granted permission to the Customs to arrest Sivasankar, who is currently in judicial custody, in connection with the sensational case.
After the arrests of former party secretary Koderiyeri Balakrishnan’s son Bineesh Kodiyeri in a narcotics case and the CM’s former secretary M Sivasankar in the gold smuggling case, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned another secretary of the chief minister, CM Raveendran.
The ED made the rebuttal in an affidavit filed before a principal sessions court in Kochi on an affidavit filed by Sivasankar, in which he had alleged that he was pressurized to name a few political targets of ED’s choice.
The Ernakulam Principal Sessions Court on Tuesday denied bail to suspended IAS officer M Sivasankar, the former principal secretary to Kerala Chief Minister, in the gold smuggling case.
Suspended IAS officer M Sivasankar was former principal secretary to Kerala CM Pinarayi Vjayan.
The additional sessions court in Kochi remanded IAS officer M Sivasankar in judicial custody till November 26.
The counsel of Kerala gold smuggling accused M Sivasankar, the former principal secretary to Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan, claimed that allegations regarding the kickbacks received in the Life Mission projects are baseless.
The customs department will be interrogating M Sivasankar, the former bureaucrat in connection with the dollar smuggling case, while the vigilance will be questioning him over the Life Mission case.
M Sivasankar has been remanded to judicial custody until November 26 in connection with the gold smuggling case. He will be shifted to Ernakulam.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) moved an application in the Special PMLA court here, seeking one more day custody of Sivasankar to investigate in connection with the case as his custody period ended today.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's former secretary M Sivasankar and his team of officials in the chief minister's office were fully aware of the Kerala gold smuggling case, Swapna Suresh has told the ED.
Kerala gold smuggling case: The ED had taken Sivasankar former secretary and senior IAS official M Sivasankar into custody on October 28.
The NIA has arrested 21 out of 35 people accused in the Kerala gold smuggling case which came to light after Customs officials seized gold worth Rs 14 crore concealed in diplomatic baggage addressed to the UAE Consulate in Kerala earlier this year.