The Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Court of Kochi (Economic Offenses) has allowed Swapna Suresh and Sarit PS to arrest the Customs Department in the dollar smuggling case involving gold smuggling. A case has also been registered against the two accused who are already in judicial custody for smuggling dollars.
According to the Customs Department, Swapna illegally smuggled $ 1,90,000 abroad from Kerala. For this, he used his identity card of the Consulate General of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Kerala. The dollar smuggling case has come to light during the investigation into the gold smuggling case.
Central agencies like the Customs Department, National Investigation Agency (NIA), and Enforcement Directorate (ED) are investigating the 30 kg gold case caught at Thiruvananthapuram Airport on 5 July.
In this case, Shivshankar, who was the Chief Secretary to the Chief Minister of Kerala, is also under investigation and he has been questioned several times. Senior IAS officer Shivshankar was suspended after connecting with Swapna Suresh.