The Enforcement Directorate (ED) teams Wednesday conducted raids at ex-Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan’s house as part of a probe into a money-laundering case.
The searches were carried out at 10 places, including the residences of the CM, his daughter T Veena, and former Public Works and Tourism Minister Mohammed Riyaz in Kozhikode, under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The raids are linked to “illegal payments” of Rs 1.72 crore by a private firm named Cochin Minerals And Rutile Ltd (CMRL) to Exalogic Solutions between 2018 to 2019, without even receiving any service from the IT company, belonging to Veena.
The ED had registered a PMLA case in 2024 to probe these allegations. The Kerala High Court Tuesday dismissed a plea filed by the CMRL seeking to junk the ED proceedings in the case.
