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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is deliberately sabotaging the Kodakara hawala lawsuit to support BJP functionaries implicated successful it, alleged CPI District Secretary K.G. Shivanandan.
“The request that the ED analyse the Kodakara hawala lawsuit was raised by the CPI from the precise beginning. We had insisted that a Special Investigation Team appointed by the State authorities probe the case, and that it beryllium tried successful a peculiar tribunal nether the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. It was besides recommended that the lawsuit beryllium brought nether the ED’s purview for a broad probe and strict enactment against the guilty,” helium said.
However, Mr. Shivanandan charged that erstwhile the ED took over, the probe became superficial and compromised.
“ED did not behaviour the probe successful the due manner. The roles of BJP Alappuzha territory wide caput Gopalakrishnan Kartha and erstwhile Thrissur territory treasurer Sujaisenan were already exposed publically by Tirur Satheeshan, past caput of the BJP Thrissur territory office, during a property conference. In a lawsuit with astir 130 witnesses, the ED did not adjacent fuss to grounds the statements of these important individuals,” helium said.
The CPI person alleged that the agency’s intentions became wide the infinitesimal it ignored cardinal testimonies.
“ED has completed the probe without observing indispensable procedural requirements and has present submitted a study that weakens the lawsuit to the constituent wherever it cannot basal successful a peculiar court. This is simply a calculated effort to shield the existent culprits,” Shivanandan said.
Calling the ED’s determination “a situation to the judicial system,” helium accused the bureau of functioning arsenic a instrumentality of the BJP.
“The alleged probe is thing but a farce, and it volition soon beryllium exposed successful the peculiar court. The nationalist indispensable recognise this deliberate sabotage,” helium said.
