Kodakara hawala case: ED rejects police findings and claims of BJP involvement

THRISSUR: The ED has filed a chargesheet in the Kodakara hawala case. The ED's chargesheet rejects the police's findings in the case. The ED rejected the police's finding that the BJP had brought money for election campaigning.

There are a total of 23 accused in the case. The ED filed the chargesheet in the Kaloor PMLA court. The ED informed the court that there is no possibility of further investigation in the case and there is no evidence that it is BJP's money.

On the morning of April 3, 2021, a gang stopped a car on the national highway at Kodakara and stole the hawala money brought from Kozhikode to Kochi. The car owner had filed a complaint that Rs 25 lakh had been stolen, but during the police investigation, it was found that Rs 3.5 crore had been lost.

Although there were allegations that this was black money given by the Karnataka unit of the BJP to spend in the assembly elections, the BJP had denied this. Tirur Satish, a witness in the case and former BJP office secretary, claimed that the black money was intended for use as the BJP's election funds.