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Senior IAS Officer Who Served As Pinarayi Vijayan's Former Secretary Quizzed Over Gold Smuggling Case
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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's former Secretary and IAS officer M Sivasankar was grilled for 9 hours by the Customs in the gold smuggling case.
Sivasankar had arrived for questioning at the Customs office on Tuesday evening and was let off only around 2.15 am on Wednesday. He is set to be called again by the Customs and also the National Investigation Agency (NIA) which is also probing the case.
A three-member team of Customs officials had gone to Sivasankar's house on Tuesday to serve a notice upon him. Sivasankar, present at the house, said he was ready to appear before the officials during the day itself for questioning and did so.
Swapna Suresh, a former employee of the UAE Consulate, here and employed with the IT Department, of which Sivasankar was incharge, and three others were booked by the NIA for allegedly facilitating smuggling of 30 kg gold in diplomatic baggage to Thiruvananthapuram from Dubai on July 5.
Sivasankar ran into trouble after his alleged links with Swapna surfaced. Sivasankar has reportedly admitted to the Customs that he and Swapna were friends.
The story has been published via a syndicated feed only the headline has been changed
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