Bengaluru: Bineesh Kodiyeri, son of Kerala CPI(M) secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, has been relieved of drug charges in connection with his alleged links with an accused in the Bengaluru drug case.
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has dropped Kodiyeri's name from the charge sheet in the drugs case after the officials failed to produce sufficient evidence against him.
In August 2020, NCB officials arrested three accused identified as Anika, Md Anoop and Ravindran in connection with the drug case. Anika had then revealed the names of people allegedly involved in drug trafficking.
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Kodiyeri was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate for his alleged financial dealings with an accused in the Bengaluru drug racket case. He was questioned at the ED's zonal office in Bengaluru for more than three hours and was arrested under relevant sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). There were allegations that Bineesh had invested money in a hotel business launched by M Anoop in Kammanahalli in 2015.
However, ED claims to have enough evidence that Bineesh had transferred money to Anoop's bank account. The agency has initiated the procedure of filing the final charge sheet.
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