On being asked if the ED had sent a summons to him, Yusaf Ali reportedly parried the question saying the people who gave the news about the summons should be asked about it.
Enforcement Directorate [IANS]
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is learnt to have issued a fresh summon to MA Yusuf Ali, managing director and chairman of the Lulu Group International for recording his statement in connection with the case related to alleged violation of Foreign Contribution(Regulations) Act, in the Wadakkancerry Life Mission housing project bribery case.
Sources said the ED has asked Yusuf Ali to appear before the agency’s Kochi office on 16 March. It is learnt that the probe agency had earlier summoned Yusuf Ali on 1 March. However, he could not join the probe as he was then in the United Arab Emirates’s Abu Dhabi.
A Malayalam news channel has reported that Yusuf Ali denied the allegations in the Life Mission case.
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On being asked if the ED had sent a summons in the Life Mission scam case to him, Yusaf Ali reportedly parried the question saying the people who gave the news about the summons should be asked on it.
The Life Mission project case involves the alleged violation of the Foreign Contribution (Regulations) Act in the project, which intended to provide homes to the poor who lost their houses in the floods of 2018.
The project, which provides houses to the landless and homeless, is one of the flagship projects of the Pinarayi Vijayan Government.
Wadakkancherry LIFE (Livelihood Inclusion Financial Empowerment) mission case pertains to the alleged diversion of funds provided by the UAE Red Crescent for the construction of apartments for the poor in the wake of the 2018 Kerala floods.
The UAE Consulate in Thiruvananthapuram and the Kerala LIFE mission entered into an agreement to construct a housing complex at Wadakkancherry using the Red Crescent’s funds in 2019.
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