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Chennai: After a brief break, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has again stepped up its probe in the Karuvannur Service Co-operative Bank money-laundering case, questioning CPMs Kerala state secretariat member P.K. Biju in connection with its probe Thursday...
The agency has also summoned Thrissur Corporation councillor P.K. Shajan to appear before it Friday..
While Shajan and Biju were members of the CPM-appointed committee that probed the alleged irregularities in the bank, the ED says the scam took place on the instruction of Moideen, who was the minister for local self-government between 2016 and 2021 in the previous Left Democratic Front (LDF) rule Kerala...
Challenging the agency to find the alleged secret accounts, CPM senior leader M.V. Govindan said the party was not scared of the ED.The ED and central government who have arrested leaders like (Delhi chief minister) Arvind Kejriwal in false cases, can arrest anyone, but the party wont be scared, he told the media Monday, asserting that the CPM didnt have accounts that hadnt been revealed to the Election Commission...
On 30 March, PM Narendra Modi in a phone call to BJP workers in Kerala had said he would ensure that criminals involved in the Karuvannur bank scam were punished and justice was served to those who had lost their money...
