Thiruvananthapuram: The main accused in the gold smuggling case and the crime they committed, from the Customs chargesheet:
P.S. Sarith: Conspired with Swapna Suresh. Rameez and Sandeep were told to pay the Consul General $ 1,000 per kilogram of gold for permission to smuggle gold into the diplomatic parcel. When the Consul General warned that the gold smugglers would pay the counterfeit commission as a smuggling commission, he bought a counting machine that could check it. Indian currency converted into dollars to pay commission to admin attach. The gold smuggling was facilitated and rewarded in the first place.
∙ Swapna Suresh: Facilitated gold smuggling through diplomatic parcels. Critical involvement in conspiracy and gold smuggling. He persuaded the Consulate General that he needed money to build a house in Dubai and that he should pay for the gold smuggling through the diplomatic channel. According to Sandeep, he received Rs 14.5 lakh as reward. Was in close proximity to Sarith. After earning more money, the couple left their existing life partners and planned to get married. So Sarit was allowed to take the commission share of the dream as well. When the Consul General returned to Dubai before the Kovid lockdown, the admin influenced Attache. Attache was paid $ 1,500 to smuggle a kilo of gold.
Sandeep Nair: One of the masterminds of the gold smuggling. A telegram group called the ‘CPM Committee’ was formed to plan and pass on information using code words. Special care was taken to never use your own mobile for gold smuggling. The gold, which was smuggled in hidden inside electrical appliances, was seized and extracted with the help of KT Ramis. The gold was handed over to Remis.
.ടി KT Remis: He was earlier arrested along with Sandeep Nair in gold smuggling cases through Karipur and Thiruvananthapuram airports. Swapna, Sarith and Sandeep came up with a plan to smuggle gold through the diplomatic channel. Restrictions on the collection and distribution of gold from Dubai through smuggling.
.എം. A.M. Jalal, Rabins Hameed: Money spent on gold smuggling. Investors in gold smuggling found.
(Defendants up to 26 are those who bought gold in smuggling and deposited money in advance)
ഫ്ര Godfrey Pratap: Captain, a customs broker at the UAE Consulate, is the General Manager of Agencies. Blindfolded when diplomatic bags were misused. Paved the way for gold smuggling without checking documents. Deliberately failed to ensure authenticity.
Emirates Sky Cargo: Deliberate failure to find gold parcels smuggled by defendants as diplomatic bags. The bags, which contained concealed gold, were found to be diplomatic bags without documents from the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs. There is no evidence of direct involvement in gold smuggling.
M. Shivshankar: He was the Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister at the time of the crime. Had an unnatural relationship with the dream. Shivashankar had dreamed of illegal transactions carried out by the Consulate General at the UAE Consulate. Shivshankar was aware of the smuggling of gold through the diplomatic channel. Made financial transactions with the dream. Accompanied the dream on official trips inside and outside the country. Santosh Yooppan, the contractor for the Life Life Mission project, bought the gift for Sivashankar’s birthday and gave it to Swapna.
Together with Keshavdas, he planned to invest in the UAE. When he was the board chairman of Kerala State Information Technology Infrastructure Limited, he hired Sapna at Space Park on the strength of forged documents. Sandeep Nair has said that Shivshankar was in constant contact with Sapna through WhatsApp calls from the time he seized the gold in his diplomatic bag until his arrest by the NIA. According to Swapna, Sivashankar had warned that there was an intelligence report that smuggling was taking place under the cover of a diplomatic channel and that special attention should be paid to it. Consul General Jamal Hussein established relations with al-Sabi, contrary to the country’s diplomatic standards.
Defendant
1. PS Sarith, Thiruvallam, Thiruvananthapuram.
2. Swapna Suresh, Kawadiar, Thiruvananthapuram.
3. h. N. Sandeep Nair, Aruvikkara, Thiruvananthapuram
4. KT Remies, Perinthalmanna, Malappuram.
5. AM Jalal, Muvattupuzha, Ernakulam
6. Rabins Hameed, Perumattom, Muvattupuzha.
7. P. Muhammad Shafi, Ikkarappadi, Malappuram.
8. E. Sayyidalavi, Vengara, Malappuram.
9. TM Sanju, Nediyarambath, Kozhikode.
10. Shamsudeen, Eranjikal, Kozhikode,
11. PT Abdu, Kottayam, Malappuram
12. K. Hamjad Ali, Kondotty, Malappuram.
13. TM Muhammad Anwar, Manjeri, Malappuram.
14. PM Abdul Hameed, Koottilangadi, Malappuram.
15. Aboobacker Pazhedath, Koottilangadi, Malappuram.
16. Hamsad Abdul Salam, Manjeri, Malappuram.
17. CV Gifsal, Vattakinar, Kondotty.
18. M. Muhammad Abdu Shamim, Koduvalli, Kozhikode.
19. Muhammad Aslam, Vandoor, Malappuram.
20. Ullas Kurup, Mannar, Alappuzha.
21. Muhammad Ali Ibrahim, Muvattupuzha, Ernakulam.
22. Muhammad Ali Abdul Khader, Muvattupuzha, Ernakulam.
23. KT Sharafudeen, Perinthalmanna, Malappuram.
24. A. Muhammad Shafeek, Manarkad, Palakkad.
25. PM Musthafa, Punnakal Meethal, Kozhikode.
26. Abdul Aziz, Ikkarapadi, Malappuram.
27. Godfrey Prathap, Vallakkadavu, Thiruvananthapuram.
28. Emirates Sky Cargo, Thiruvananthapuram.
29. M. Shivashankar, Poojappura, Thiruvananthapuram.
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