Kerala: ED official among 4 booked for ‘seeking bribe to settle probe’

While the ED official is yet to be arrested, three others, who allegedly functioned as middlemen between the agency and the businessman, were held and remanded in judicial custody. The VACB (Central)  SP, S Sasidharan, said they acted upon a complaint from a cashew businessman from Kollam, Aneesh Kumar.

As per the complaint, the ED had served summons to Aneesh in 2024 citing suppressed businessman volumes with regard to cashew import from Africa. The accused official allegedly sought details of the import for the past eight years. Later, Wilson, one of the accused, approached Aneesh and told him the matter would be solved if `2 crore was paid to the ED assistant director.