Customs summons Kodiyeri Balakrishnan’s spouse for interrogation over iPhone gifted by Unitac head

By Express News Service
KOCHI: The Customs has issued a summons to interrogate former CPM state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan’s spouse Vinodini Balakrishnan for utilizing an iPhone bought by Unitac proprietor Santhosh Eapen. The division has directed Vinodini to seem for interrogation on March 10 on the Customs workplace in Kochi.

Customs officers instructed The New Indian Express that they served the discover to Vinodhini after a probe discovered that the iPhone with the particular IMEI quantity was utilized by a cell quantity taken within the tackle of Vinodhini. This specific iPhone was considered one of six cellphones which had been distributed by Eapen as a present for awarding him the Vadakancherry Life Mission mission.

In his assertion to the Customs, Eapen had already revealed that he gave a bribe for acquiring the Life Mission contract. The Customs discovered that he had distributed cellphones to the Chief Minister’s former principal secretary M Sivasankar and extra protocol officer Rajeevan other than the then performing UAE Consul General Rashid Khamis Al Sheimeili. The Customs is learnt to have recovered the SIM card of the telephone.

The iPhone concern has put senior CPM chief Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, who had stepped down as state secretary of the celebration in November final yr, in a decent spot. His son Bineesh Kodiyeri is already in jail in Bengaluru in reference to a medicine case.