KOCHI: An LDF-backed MLA was caught up in controversy after it was revealed in a customs report that Soumya — the wife of Sandeep Nair, a key accused in the gold smuggling case — had told sleuths that her husband and KT Ramees had been smuggling gold for councillor Karat Faisal and MLA Karat Rasak from Koduvally.
The MLA denied the accusation and said no investigation officer had contacted him till date regarding the alleged statements against him.
According to sources, Soumya had also told the sleuths that the smuggling gang was from Kozhikode. Soumya was summoned by customs to its Kochi office soon after Sandeep and Swapna went into hiding and she has given key details about the gang to customs sleuths, sources said.
Rasak said he did not know Swapna, Sandeep or Ramees other than what he read in news about their smuggling.