Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued a notice to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's Additional Private Secretary CM Raveendran pertaining to the ongoing investigations in Kerala Gold Smuggling Case and its related matters. Enforcement Directorate directed him to appear before its Kochi (Cochin) office on Friday, November 27 for interrogation.
A close confidant of Pinarayi Vijayan, Raveendran was summoned by Enforcement Directorate after recording the statements of Swapna Suresh and M Sivasankar, former principal secretary of Kerala Chief Minister in connection with gold smuggling case.
Under Enforcement Directorate scanner are also the alleged irregularities relating to various projects of the IT Department, that the ED found during the course of the investigation. Sivasankar was also serving as the IT Secretary before he was removed from the post after the gold smuggling case.
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