CPI (m) dives the heat in the enforcement directorate over 2 crore bribes scandal of the week- the week

The CPI (m) intensified its attack on the enforcement directorates (ED) and questioned the agency's credibility and integrity of the agency according to allegations of bribes to high -ranking civil servants in his Kochi unit. When the office of vigilance and anti-corruption office (VACB) deepens its investigation, the CPI (m) policy member Ma Baby beat the ED and explains that the agency has long been available for political abuse and now of corruption disorders and well-being.

Shekhar Kumar, deputy director of the Kochi unit of the enforcement directorate, is the key that is charged in the case registered by the VACB. According to the examination report submitted by the VAC before the Muvattupuzha Wake Court, the case comprises a suspected attempt to blackmail 2 crore from a businessman based. In connection with the case, there are already three people in vacu market.

The businessman who had operated a cashew export import company submitted the complaint after he was called by the Kochi unit of the ED in 2024. The agency had accused him of manipulating accounts to hide money laundering, citing the company's high sales.

According to the investigation report, the first defendant, Kumar, had asked for years of financial documents and threatened the businessman with arrest and a registered case. Shortly thereafter, an agent called Wilson Varghese -who is currently in VacB -generated -generally to the businessman and offered to pay the ED matter for 2 billion GBP -to be paid to Kumar. He also demanded that £ 2 Lakh in cash to be handed over personally on May 15, 2025.

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An auditor named Ranjith Warrier informed the details of the businessman with Wilson.

Alarmed, the businessman turned to the vigilance and anti-corruption office (VACB), which checked the complaint and started spiked operation. On May 16, Varghese became the collection of the marked 2-pound-in Bar Red Hand.

The state unit of CPI (m) also actively portrays the bribe scandal as proof of widespread corruption within the ED and the justification of its many years of claim that the agency was abused by the central government for political Vendases against opponents.

In particular, the move of the VACB came at a time when the ED examines the results of the income tax interior comparison committee and the investigative office for serious fraud in connection with suspicious financial transactions in which the IT Chancellery of Prime Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is involved.

The Congress Party had also submitted the allegations that there were widespread corruption in the ED, and repeated the view that the agency was used politically. The leader of the opposition, VD Satheeshan, also claimed a CPM-BJP Nexus as the reason for ED cases against CPI (M) pleiter that were sabotaged.