KOCHI : The NIA team probing gold smuggling case has another round of questioning in store for former IT Secretary, M Sivasankar. The suspended bureaucrat has to appear before the sleuths Monday morning at their office in Kochi.
Investigators had questioned Sivasankar extensively at Peroorkada Police Club in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday in a session that began around 4 pm and ran up to midnight.
NIA is examining the kind of ties he might have had with key suspects in the diplomatic gold smuggling case including Swapna Suresh, Sartih and Sandeep. They are also scanning Sivasankar’s air travels in the past to find if he lend any kind of help to the smuggling racket.
Incidentally, Customs had quizzed Sivasankar on these aspects earlier before wrapping up their audience with him.
