A Customs team on Wednesday leaves the home taken on rent by M. Sivasankar, previous Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, in Thiruvananthapuram after an assessment in connection with the gold-smuggling case.
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He has breached service rules and put the CMO on the defence
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday stated the federal government had actually suspended his former Principal Secretary M. Sivasankar from service pending a detailed inquiry.
A committee headed by Chief Secretary Vishwas Mehta and Additional Chief Secretary, Financing, Rajesh Kumar Singh had actually found that Mr. Sivasankar had actually actively broken the guidelines that govern the conduct of civil service officers by “carefully associating” with persons presently under investigation for gold smuggling and anti-national activity.
The questions had centred on how Swapna Suresh, the 2nd implicated in the high-profile case, had evaded multiple layers of vetting to gain work as marketing intermediary officer of the government-run Area Park project. Swapna’s supposed association with Mr. Sivasankar had actually brought the scandal surrounding the effort to smuggle gold via air cargo shipments dealt with to the UAE consulate here awkwardly close to the Chief Minister’s Workplace (CMO).
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