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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has reportedly issued a caller summons to Veena T., girl of erstwhile Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, asking her to look astatine its Kochi bureau connected June 17, 2026, successful transportation with the probe into the alleged pay-off lawsuit involving Exalogic Solutions Private Limited, Ms. Veena’s present defunct firm, and the Cochin Minerals and Rutile Limited (CMRL).
She was expected to look earlier the Central probe bureau for the questioning connected Friday (June 12). The caller summons comes successful the aftermath of her petition to postpone her quality citing wellness grounds. She is expected to look astatine 10 a.m. with applicable documents related to her company.
The Central bureau had summoned Ms. Veena on with Sasidharan Kartha, president and managing manager of CMRL, and elder institution officials connected June 9, 2026, arsenic portion of the probe. The others person been asked to look connected Monday (June 15, 2026).
Raids connected houses
The ED had connected May 27, 2026, raided the residences of Mr. Vijayan successful Kannur and Thiruvananthapuram arsenic portion of the probe into whether Ms. Veena’s now-defunct steadfast had received sizeable monthly retainers from CMRL, a backstage mining company, during the 2017-2021 play allegedly without rendering immoderate tangible service. It has besides been accused that Empower India Capital Investments Private Limited (EICPL), operated by Mr. Kartha, had extended loans worthy ₹50 lakh to Exalogic contempt the institution allegedly failing to marque timely repayments.
The ED registered a lawsuit nether the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) connected the ground of a prosecution ailment filed by the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) earlier a tribunal successful Ernakulam successful April 2025.
Accounts frozen
During the people of the raids, the ED had frozen ₹18.36 crore successful 242 accounts identified during the hunt operations held successful the pay-off case. It had claimed that the searches held arsenic portion of the probe yielded respective incriminating records, accounts, integer evidences, investments and fixed deposits successful banks. Besides Mr. Vijayan’s residences, the ED had held searches successful the residence of erstwhile Minister and Ms. Veena’s hubby P.A. Mohamed Riyas.
A peculiar tribunal for the proceedings of Companies Act offences successful Kochi connected June 8 allowed the ED to get copies of documents collected by the SFIO successful transportation with the money-laundering lawsuit linked to the CMRL pay-off case.
Ernakulam Additional District and Sessions Judge Suresh Babu V.P.M. allowed a petition filed by the ED seeking copies of documents gathered by the SFIO, which had investigated the alleged fictitious expenses submitted by the CMRL earlier the Income Tax Settlement Commission. The bureau had reportedly sought 134 documents collected by the SFIO during its probe into the links betwixt the CMRL and Exalogic.
