ED compelled to call CM Pinaryi Vijayan, two ministers, says gold smuggling case accused in letter from jail
By Express News Service
KOCHI: After two ladies police officers on guard responsibility at Enforcement Directorate (ED) workplace in Kochi revealed that the central company compelled the gold smuggling case accused Swapna Suresh to call Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, now one other accused Sandeep Nair has come out with the same allegation in opposition to the investigators. However, ED officers think about it as techniques of the accused to get bail within the case.
Sandeep is the fourth accused within the case registered by ED probing cash laundering behind the Thiruvananthapuram gold smuggling case. Sandeep who at present lodged at Poojapura Central Jail going through COFEPOSA detention wrote a letter to Ernakulam Principal Sessions Court claiming that ED officers threatened him to call Pinarayi Vijayan, two ministers and the son of an influential individual within the case.
“While in ED custody for 14 days, investigation officer Radhakrishnan told me that if I name Chief Minister, two ministers and son of an influential person, the agency will help in getting bail. During the ED custody, I was denied proper sleep, physically tortured and threatened. When I pleaded, Radhakrishnan threatened that there will be more consequences. The officer included several matters in the charge sheet that has no connection with the case like scripting a movie to showcase that ED could able unearth evidence that other investigation agencies failed to get,” acknowledged within the letter.
He alleged Radhakrishnan later got here to jail for interrogation with names of some influential individuals and corporations. “At the jail, he told me names of some of the companies which I never heard of before. He threatened me to say that some influential persons have an investment in these companies. He told me that if I admit these names, the agency will not object when my lawyer files a bail petition at the court. If required the agency will appoint a good lawyer for me, ” Sandeep acknowledged within the letter.
According to Sandeep, he objected to saying the names and requested the ED officer why the company is scripting false information within the case. On which the ED officer mentioned that he has a course from his higher-ups. The ED officer threatened Sandeep that if he would not give a press release as script made by the company, he won’t ever come out of jail.
Sandeep additionally alleged that ED is simply within the political side of the gold smuggling incident as individuals who smuggled gold and people funded them are but to be arraigned as accused even after seven months because the investigation began. He mentioned when influential individuals with cash and political backup may capable of get bail, folks like him are nonetheless behind the bar even after having no reference to the cash laundering side of the case.
He mentioned that he has a bedridden mom, a mentally sick brother, a spouse and a daughter on the home. He mentioned his members of the family are additionally going through life risk after the case was registered.
However, ED officers mentioned that Sandeep intends to get bail within the case. “He was examined by the court on numerous time and he never raised such a complaint then. From the letter, it is quite clear that he is desperate to get bail. So he has come out with a false allegation against our officer,” an ED official mentioned.
