A recent chat history of M Sivasankar that was revealed during an investigation by the Enforcement Directorate, showed that he had directed his Chartered Accountant Venugopal to leave Kerala immediately after the arrest of Swapna Suresh. The chats also revealed that the duo expressed concerns over a certain locker maintained by Swapna and Venugopal jointly.
Venugopal had reportedly been questioned by the customs officials regarding the same which he had later discussed with M Sivasankar about. It also brought out the fact that the Chartered Accountant had been alerted about the probe and that these conversations had been used as a bait in order to trap the main criminal by the officials conducting the investigation.
Venugopal informed Sivasankar that the customs questioned him about the locker while chatting with him. Responding to this, Sivasankar had expressed concerns over the media reports noting that ‘Venugopal had told the probe team that he opened the locker with Swapna as directed by Sivasankar’.
The WhatsApp chat also notes Venugopal informing Sivasankar of media personnel camping in front of his house and that he managed to remain indoors. In reply, Sivasankar advised him to leave Kerala and recommended him to choose places like Nagercoil or a safe hideout.
Swapna Suresh had been arrested in the Kerala gold smuggling case on September 11, following which a lot of other kingpins in this operation had been arrested and questioned by the Enforcement Directorate.