Raids Target Properties Linked to Pinarayi Vijayan in Kerala Payment Case
Officials searched about 10 premises as investigators examine alleged Rs 1.72 crore payments that the Income-Tax department said did not buy services.
- On Wednesday, the Enforcement Directorate conducted searches at 10 premises across Kerala, including former Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's residence in Thiruvananthapuram, as part of a money laundering probe into alleged illegal payments by Cochin Minerals and Rutile Limited to his daughter Veena Thaikkandiyil's IT company Exalogic Solutions.
- The alleged payment scam surfaced in 2023 following an income-tax raid on CMRL; the I-T department found CMRL allegedly paid approximately Rs 1.72 crore to Exalogic between 2017-18 and 2018-19 under agreements for software development, with the Interim Board of Settlement terming the transaction illegal.
- Searches targeted Vijayan's rented house in Thiruvananthapuram, his Kannur residence, his son-in-law Muhammed Riyas's home in Kozhikode, and senior CMRL executives' residences; Justice T.R. Ravi dismissed petitions challenging the ED's investigation under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act .
- CPI party general secretary M A Baby denounced the raid while Vijayan has not yet commented publicly; the ED action is expected to sharpen political confrontation in Kerala, though earlier scrutiny emerged when three company officials accused the agency of illegally detaining them during questioning.
- Congress alleged during recently concluded Assembly elections that central agencies under the BJP regime were not questioning Vijayan as part of a CPI-BJP deal; the Serious Fraud Investigation Office separately examines broader CMRL financial transactions while scrutiny of police misconduct from December 2023 intensified.
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