Foreign currency smuggling case | Customs to question Vinodhini Balakrishnan

Customs (Preventive) Commissionerate has asked Vinodhini Balakrishnan, wife of former CPI(M) State Secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, to appear before it on March 10 in connection with the probe into the foreign currency smuggling case involving officials of the UAE Consulate in Thiruvananthapuram. The agency will question her based on the inference that she was using one of the expensive mobile phones handed over by Santhosh Eapen, Managing Director of Unitac Builders to Swapna Suresh, the second accused in the high-profile diplomatic baggage gold smuggling case, as bribe.