Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday lashed out at Central investigation agencies over the prime accused in a cooperative bank scam case turning into approvers. In an apparent reference to two of the accused in the scam at the Karuvannur Service Cooperative Bank recently expressing their willingness to become prosecution witnesses, he said this was being done as part of a plan to target political opponents. He was speaking after inaugurating the ninth Kerala Cooperative Congress here.
“Recently, some illegal activities happened in an institution. The State government went ahead with stringent measures against the corrupt elements. Then the Central agencies came into the picture and a person who had intervened in such a way as to cause disrepute to the institution was turned into an approver. Who are they trying to save by turning wrongdoers into approvers? The intention is to use them to politically target some people. Naturally, they will be ready to do such things in return for being protected from the investigation,” he said.
