BENGALURU: Precisely a yr after he was arrested by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Bengaluru Zone, below the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, Bineesh Kodiyeri on Saturday walked out of jail after he was granted bail by the Karnataka Excessive Courtroom on Thursday.
Bineesh is the son of CPM chief and former occasion state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan. He was lodged in judicial custody on the Bengaluru Central Jail in Parapanna Agrahara since his arrest final yr.
The ED had arrested Bineesh on October 29 final yr below the PMLA, after his identify surfaced throughout the interrogation of drug accused Mohammed Anoop, who was himself arrested in August the identical yr by the NCB, Bengaluru zone below the Narcotic Medicine & Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985. The ED, on December 26, 2020, had filed the prosecution grievance towards Bineesh and his two associates — Anoop and Rijesh Ravindran — below the PMLA earlier than the designated court docket.
