Karuvannur bank scam: ED interrogates CPI(M) leader M K Kannan again
Enforcement Directorate, which is investigating the Rs 150 crore scam in the CPI(M) controlled Karuvannur Cooperative bank, on Friday interrogated party state committee member M K Kannan for around four hours.
Kannan, the State Vice-President of the Kerala Bank, is also the president of the Thrissur Service Cooperative Bank. He reached the ED office here in the morning but was let go after around four hours.
A section of the media earlier reported that Kannan was not cooperating with the interrogation citing ill health. However, when he came out of the ED's office here, he denied the reports.
«The interaction with the officials was smooth.
I don't have any health issues as of now. Someone might have spread such news to cause worry to my family,» he told the reporters.
Kannan said he would appear for questioning whenever the agency asks him to.
On September 25, the agency had interrogated him for seven hours, after which the CPI(M) leader had alleged that the agency officials mentally tortured him and that a north Indian officer who speaks Hindi threatened him.
«They were mentally torturing. They wanted to mentally depress me.
There is one deputy director who was threatening in Hindi,» Kannan had then told the media.
On September 26, CPI(M) leader and Wadakkanchery Municipal Councillor P R Aravindakshan was arrested by the ED in connection with the case. The CPI(M) had said that the arrest of Aravindakshan was a witch-hunt carried out by the agency because he had complained to the police accusing the ED officials of threatening and assaulting him.
