The Customs on Friday informed the Kerala High Court that Swapna Suresh, one of the prime accused in the diplomatic gold smuggling case, has revealed with clarity that smuggling of foreign currency was done at the instance of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Assembly Speaker P. Sreeramakrishnan.
Sumit Kumar, Commissioner of Customs(Preventive) Kochi submitted in a statement filed before the High Court that she had made a “shocking revelation” of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s close connections with the previous Consul General of UAE and the illegal monetary transactions.
The statement was filed by the Commissioner of Customs (Preventive), Kochi, in response to a petition filed by the State government challenging certain remarks in the order of the Additional Chief Judciail Magistrate (Economic Offences) Court’s providing security to Swapna Sures, now housed at the women’s Prison and Correctional Home, Attakulangara, Thiruvananthapuram.
The Customs Commissioner pointed out that…