Kochi: Speaker P Sriramakrishnan will not appear for questioning today in the dollar smuggling case. The explanation given to the customs was that he would not attend because he was ill. He was directed to appear for questioning at the Kochi customs office at 11 am today. This is the second time Customs has issued a notice to the Speaker to appear for questioning in connection with a dollar smuggling case. The notice was issued to the Speaker of Customs on the basis of the confessions of Swapna Suresh and Sarith, the accused in the gold smuggling case.
Earlier, Swapna’s statement containing serious allegations against Speaker P Sriramakrishnan was released. The dream revealed that the speaker had maliciously called into the flat. He said the flat in Chakka was his hideout. Despite several calls to the flat, he did not go alone. Sapna says he was relieved of his duties at Middle East College because he did not submit to the speaker’s personal interests.
Swapna has said that Shivshankar’s team was in the CM’s office. They were a team including CM Raveendran and Dineshan Puthalathu. Swapna alleges that they had taken many government projects under benami names. Swapna’s statement was included in the second report filed in the High Court. According to Swapna, he had personally informed the Chief Minister about his resignation from the UAE Consulate.
Earlier, a statement issued by Swapna Suresh, accused in a gold smuggling case, had said that Speaker P Sriramakrishnan had planned to start an educational institution abroad. The speaker said he had investments in Middle East College in Oman and planned to open a branch of the same college in Sharjah. The Speaker met with the ruler of Sharjah to get free land for the institution. The meeting was held at the Leela Palace Hotel in Thiruvananthapuram. A copy of the statement filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the High Court seeking quashing of the FIR filed by the Crime Branch against the probe team has been released.
Swapna Suresh’s WhatsApp chats were interrogated by Swapna, P. Information provided against the speaker. A WhatsApp chat referring to a person named Lafeer was sent to M. Shivashankar, the Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister. The speaker’s name was revealed while answering questions about this.
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‘He had introduced Lafeer and Kiran to M. Shivashankar and P. Sriramakrishnan. Sri Ramakrishnan had planned to start a branch of Middle East College in Sharjah. He had applied to the ruler of Sharjah for free land for the construction of a building for the college. Shivshankar, the Speaker, Shafeer and Kiran had asked him to move to Sharjah to look after his business in Sharjah. Khalid himself visited Oman in April 2018.
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When the ruler of Sharjah visited Thiruvananthapuram, P. Sriramakrishnan met him in person and requested that the college be given a place in Sharjah. He also verbally promised to give the land.