Cannot the Enforcement Directorate keep back from coming to Kerala, to insult not the history of crime investigation?
P. S. Remesh Chandran
Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum
Cannot the Enforcement Directorate keep back from coming to Kerala, to insult not the history of crime investigation? It is cases if investigated even by the common people and the most high-profile culprits will be caught and put in prison that the central ED is investigating in Kerala and submitting ridiculous reports on, disgracing and staining the history of the world criminal investigation. Reading these reports even the people’s courts that may meet on shop verandahs or at road sides will tell them to take these reports away, to come with fully investigated reports, and will ask even with these resources, staff power and brain pool if they couldn’t catch the real culprits.
Suppose a person named A tells or orders a person named B who is his immediately lower subordinate- let it be the Chief Minister’s Principal Government Secretary- to transfer a consignment of smuggled gold to some place or to bring it in from some place! B smuggles gold 32 times, the foreign intelligence agencies get hold of this information and hand it over to someone in India, probably someone in the former ruling party of India, the Customs and Preventive Department of India which has been on sleeping mode till then regarding these particular persons (they passed gold under their watch 31 times!) is roused from sleep and B and his accomplices are caught. The whole lot is turned over to the Enforcement Directorate, ED also investigates, ED investigates how B sitting in that seat of authority in his immediate superior A’s office for such a long time, wielding all the power of A through foreign embassies and consulates and Indian agencies, smuggle gold an inconceivable number of times through foreign countries, without A’s information and direction, and stops the investigation at the point where the next to be caught would be A, the Chief Minister. Need the Enforcement Directorate come to Kerala for this? Isn't it a lot of public money that’s going into these investigation carnivals and spent lavishly without restraints?
There is something called logical assumption and reasoning in the history of criminal investigation. The Scotland Yard or the Federal Bureau of Investigation will not say B doesn’t tell or reveal anything about the role of A in the smuggling and therefore they are stopping the investigation there. They will investigate whether there has been any increase in the income of A, what occupation his was, whether there has been any increase in the income of his family members and other relatives, where has he kept his investments or hoardings, how frequently has he traveled abroad, where has he stayed each time, who has visited and met with him there on each occasion, who provided him with funds for travels and stay, and who bore his expenses, etc, etc, etc, up to even passwords stored on mobile phones and laptops, as well as in paid and free cloud drive services, all captured and checked. They will eventually find evidence, even if it is deleted but left as bits of meaningless-looking strings in cyberspace, and confront B about A's role in the enterprise. And it will all be filmed live on video too.
The BJP Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his political tools, the ED and the CBI, are people who are walking around pretending that the people of Kerala do not have enough intelligence to know even these. Having said that, do these two agencies have any shortage of power or resources? Do they need any more authority or permission from anyone else to carry on these investigations and inspections? Were the raids, invariably taking along the media and always accompanied by press photographers, at the residences and offices of the opposition political leaders ranging from Farooq Abdullah who was the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, to P. Chidambaram of Tamil Nadu who was the Union Minister for Finance (ED’s own minister then!) conducted after taking their permission and after asking for their convenience as they seem to do in investigations in Kerala, stopping investigation at the doorstep of Pinarayi Vijayan, the Marxist chief minister of Kerala? Are they trying to challenge through cheap lowly political stunts the people of Kerala who know all this? Don't forget that there are tens of thousands of people who retired from the central criminal investigation agencies and various state investigation agencies also are part of the public society in Kerala. They are watching not what the ED did, but what it did not do.
What the ED tries to tell the people of Kerala to believe is that the Chief Minister Mr. Pinarayi Vijayan’s Principal Secretary, Shivasankar (B), took the ill-obtained dollar’s bags from the official residence of A the Chief Minister, which is heavily guarded by the government, delivered them to the consulate of a foreign country namely the UAE in Trivandrum, ordered them equally heftily as (if) ordered by their own or India’s Ministry of External Affairs to pack and put them in their diplomatic bags and deliver them through their official channel to the Chief Minister's destination abroad to reach there even before the Chief Minister (A) reaches there on the plane, these foreign Arab cousins of their did exactly that and obeyed him without asking him to get out, and the Chief Minister who is also the Home Minister of the state in which the Consulate is situated stood there dumbfounded, stupid and innocent. They are telling the people to believe that the officials of a sovereign country absolutely obeyed the most irregular orders of a small official from a small state abroad and did all these things!
The central agencies with unlimited resources and unquestioned authority are telling the people of Kerala to believe what the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government at the centre and the Marxist Party government in the state, through their agents the Customs and the ED and the mainstream media in Kerala are telling, that while sitting in the Chief Minister's office, the Chief Minister's Principal Secretary and a large team of his top-ranking government officers were for two and a half years, smuggling tons of gold into the country through foreign consulates, airports, and ports, on thirty-two occasions, and selling them on the way or in the state or in nearby states or re-routing them by other channels, through other countries, for other purposes, the State Police, Intelligence, Crime Branch, and Special Branch of the state controlled by the Chief Minister and the ED, Intelligence, Customs, and other crime investigation and information collecting agencies controlled by the central government, were lying down with arthritis, motionless with their hands, feet, and heads paralyzed, just as they have told the courts! The courts believed it but the people did not.
This central investigative agency is telling the people to note in their memory and forget the rest that it was not the Chief Minister, the Co-operative Minister and the Finance Minister who originated and controlled the tens of thousands of crores of rupees worth of computerized fraud and money-laundering transactions in almost all of Kerala’s state-guided or controlled co-operative banks including the most infamous and massive one at the Karuvannur Cooperative Bank, but by an unimportant member of their party’s Thrissur Area Committee named Aravindakshan lying in and operating from Kannur and unimportant in Thrissur, together with another man from Kannur and a few council members from the Thrissur City Municipal Council, and that the Chief Minister, the Co-operative Minister, the Finance Minister and the Kerala Government have no role in the vanishing of crores of other dollars given by foreign organizations and governments as charity for flood relief in Kerala!
The people of Kerala once expected that the judiciary would ask more questions. They asked nothing, not even these!
Written on 19 October 2023 and first published in English on: 30 May 2024
Original article in Malayalam written on 19 October 2023 and first published on: 21 October 2023
SM1439. കുറ്റാന്വേഷണചരിത്രത്തെ അപമാനിക്കാതിരിക്കാനായി ഈഡീയു്ക്കു് കേരളത്തിലു്വരാതിരുന്നുകൂടേ?
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