ED points discover to ex-Kerala FM Thomas Isaac in KIIFB dealings probe

By PTI

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has served discover to senior CPI(M) chief Thomas Isaac searching for his look earlier than it in reference to its probe into alleged violations within the monetary dealings of KIIFB when he was the Kerala Finance Minister within the earlier LDF authorities, official sources stated on Sunday.

Sources stated Isaac has been directed to seem earlier than the probe crew on Tuesday.

Isaac stated he has not obtained any such notices from the ED.

“Even if I get something like it, I am not going to appear because I have more important things to do. They (ED) will have to arrest me”, he instructed PTI.

During the marketing campaign for the state meeting elections final yr, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had criticised the functioning of the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB), alleging that the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has criticised its monetary dealings.

She had additionally termed as “questionable” the operation of KIIFB.

Sitharaman had additionally questioned the position of the KIIFB within the making of the Kerala funds.

“I don’t know what budget making is this when all the money is given to one KIIFB. What is this organisation? We also make a budget in the Union government. We don’t give all money to one particular agency and say, ‘We’ll see’,” she had stated throughout her celebration’s public assembly in Kochi final yr.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has served discover to senior CPI(M) chief Thomas Isaac searching for his look earlier than it in reference to its probe into alleged violations within the monetary dealings of KIIFB when he was the Kerala Finance Minister within the earlier LDF authorities, official sources stated on Sunday.

Sources stated Isaac has been directed to seem earlier than the probe crew on Tuesday.

Isaac stated he has not obtained any such notices from the ED.

“Even if I get something like it, I am not going to appear because I have more important things to do. They (ED) will have to arrest me”, he instructed PTI.

During the marketing campaign for the state meeting elections final yr, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had criticised the functioning of the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB), alleging that the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has criticised its monetary dealings.

She had additionally termed as “questionable” the operation of KIIFB.

Sitharaman had additionally questioned the position of the KIIFB within the making of the Kerala funds.

“I don’t know what budget making is this when all the money is given to one KIIFB. What is this organisation? We also make a budget in the Union government. We don’t give all money to one particular agency and say, ‘We’ll see’,” she had stated throughout her celebration’s public assembly in Kochi final yr.