KOCHI: Former minister VK Ebrahim Kunju will be soon interrogated by the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau in connection with the Palarivattom flyover scam. It is learnt that the former minister will have to undergo interrogation soon after the end of the ongoing assembly session.

According to sources, Ebrahim Kunju will be issued a notice asking him to appear at the Vigilance office in Ernakulam. It must be noted that Governor Arif Mohammed Khan had given permission to prosecute the former minister. Sources also added that former MD of Roads and Bridges Development Corporation Muhammad Hanish IAS will be questioned next week.

It is suspected that the former minister had a role in allowing mobilization advance to the contractors. It was former PWD secretary TO Sooraj who had stated that he had made an advance payment of money to the contractors as told by Ebrahim Kunju.