Congress MLA Mathew Kuzhalnadan has accused Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of having orchestrated the mineral sand mining at Thottappally in Alappuzha to purportedly aid the interests of CMRL.
The LDF government cancelled the agreement after Kuzhalnadan alleged in December that the CMRL company has made illegal payments to Veena Vijayan.
PC George also said that he knows that Pinarayi Vijayan and his daughter lost sleep just for the complaint raised by his son Shone George.
The inquiry panel has been asked to submit the report within four months.
The petition challenged a vigilance court order rejecting a plea for probe into the financial transactions of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's daughter.
Addressing a press conference in Kochi, Kuzhalnadan said that Veena has been obtaining money from the private minerals company CMRL since 2017. She acquired GST registration only in 2018. Then, how did she manage to pay GST before that, he asked.
It is said that a report in this regard has been handed over to Finance Minister KN Balagopal by the Secretary of Taxes and it will be forwarded to the Chief Minister.
The GST Department cited its obligation to protect the privacy of certain individuals as a reason to not reply to the query.
Those who receive ‘nokku kooli” (high wages for doing anything) are in CM’s house, said Kerala BJP vice-president Sobha Surendran.
