The suspected international financial transactions worth several crores of rupees between the accused in the Kozhikode parallel telephone exchange case and those who clandestinely supported them from abroad are now on the radar of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), with the Special Investigation Team (SIT) under the District Crime Branch making headway in the probe.
P.P. Shabeer, the prime suspect in the case who was recently arrested from Wayanad, is reportedly the brain behind the transactions made by those who explored the secret communication network for anti-national activities. Amid his confessions in police custody, Shabeer had revealed the details of multiple bank accounts managed by him, the police said.
“The ED investigation is mainly to verify the source of money he received from different countries in different accounts which was later credited into the accounts of his other agents in India through cash deposit machines,” said a senior police officer who uncovered the suspicious financial transactions during interrogation which were later referred to the ED. The major finding was that the man had been receiving several crores of rupees since 2017 from multiple sources for suspicious businesses linked to the parallel telephone exchange, he said.
