Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu: 'Middlemen' Of Central Agencies Threatened Me For 3 Months Says Speaker M Appavu After Arrest Of ED Officer Ankit Tiwari
Ankit Tiwari (L); Tamil Nadu Speaker M Appavu (R)
Speaking to reporters after the arrest of Enforcement Directorate (ED) officer Ankit Tiwari for accepting a bribe of Rs 20 lakh, Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker M Appavu said that he had been threatened by 'middlemen' of central agencies for three months.
According to a report by PTI, he said, “I learned about the arrest of the ED official through the media. This shows how the central agencies…target politicians and businessmen in the non-BJP-ruled states through their intermediaries.”
About being threatened by middlemen, he said, “He has been issuing threats to me for three months in the name of a central agency. I had to warn him not to try the trick on me as I am straightforward and that God will take care of me.”
Further, he said that a middleman had asked him to go underground and change his mobile number but he had refused.
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