As the election campaign for the Kerala state polls enters its last stage, a new and stunning revelation has come forth in the high-profile gold smuggling case. The key accused Swapna Suresh has told the Enforcement Directorate that the speaker of the Kerala Legislative Assembly, P Sreeramakarishnan, called her to his flat with “dirty intentions”, reports the New Indian Express.
“He told me about the flat’s real ownership to convince me to feel safe as he used to call me there with some personal dirty intentions,” she is quoted as saying in the deposition. She said that when she did not agree, he refused to give the job he had offered her at Middle East College, Oman, in which he allegedly has an investment, the report states.
According to the document accessed by the New Indian Express, Swapna told the agency: “Sreeramakrishnan had called me to the flat in Marutham apartment and told me that it was his ‘hideout’. I went there along with Sarith (another accused in the gold smuggling case) to meet him. However, as I didn’t agree with his ‘personal interests’, the role offered to me in the Middle East college was also cancelled.”
This revelation comes at a time when the Pinarayi Vijayan-led LDF government has been trying hard to push the central agencies probing the gold smuggling and related cases on the back foot using various means.
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