THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Sandeep Nair, benami of Swapna Suresh, the main conspirator in the gold smuggling case, is a member of the CPM, said his mother. I don’t know what all he is doing. I live very hard. I know Swapna. I have seen her when she came to inaugurate the shop and twice later. I don’t know her much, she said.

Sandeep Nair is the owner of Carbon Doctor Workshop in Nedumangad. Speaker P Sreeramakrishnan attending the inaugural function of this, had stoked a controversy. Customs has obtained the information that Sandeep Nair has a role in all operations along with Sarith, arrested in the case.

Sandeep was an employee of a timber shop in the city. He attained financial gains very fast. He recently bought a luxurious car of Maharashtra registration. He has some Dubai connections also. He had travelled to Dubai in November 2019.

Sandeep had not come to his workshop after the gold smuggling case. His phone is switched off. Neither his family nor his employees of the workshop know where he is. Speaker attended the inaugural function of the workshop on December 31, 2019. The footages of Swapna attending the function along with the speaker was exposed.

Speaker has agreed that Swapna invited him for the function but dismissed all the controversies related to it. The Speaker had yesterday told the media that Swapna was not a stranger to him.