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Arun Balachandran was removed as the Marketing and Operations Director at the IT Parks, an initiative of the IT Department, on Wednesday night after investigators got to know about his links to the gold smuggling racket through phone records.
The NIA suspects that Faisal used Arun’s ties in the cinema world he had developed while running a fashion house in Kochi, to smuggle gold and launder money.
It has now emerged that one Arun Balachandran, who was the CM’s IT Fellow, had looked out for a flat near the Kerala Secretariat for the operations of the people now accused of gold smuggling.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) would seek the help of Interpol to nab Faizal Fareed from Dubai and extradite him to India. The NIA court has issued an arrest warrant against Faizal, a native of Thrissur.
The NIA, which is also a part of the probe into the case, has opposed Swapna’s anticipatory bail application in the Kerala High Court saying it is probing if funds were being raised for terrorism through gold smuggling.
This is the first phase of setting up 28 such courts in the state in accordance with the Supreme Court directives.
The killing of Soleimani brought the United States and Iran to the brink of armed conflict after Iran retaliated by firing missiles at American targets in Iraq several days later.
The police seized 143 devices such as mobile phones, modems, hard disks, memory cards and computers in the raids.
Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, patronised by Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), is believed to be residing in Karachi and is accused in several cases of cross border crimes including the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.
The Interpol has noticed a large number of international crimes after the coronavirus pandemic gripped the globe, including the online sale of fake medicines and medical supplies, ransomware operations targeting hospitals, financial frauds related to medical supplies, among others.