THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: CPI mouthpiece Janayugam suspect Swapna Suresh, accused in the gold smuggling case and M Sivasankar, former principal secretary to the chief minister, of selling space secrets to foreign countries. An article on it was carried in yesterday's newspaper.

Reports said the NIA had found that there is a conspiracy in the visits of Sivasankar and Swapna to ISRO headquarters. The intelligence agencies had obtained information that the two had held talks with prominent scientists at a five-star hotel.

RAW and Central Intelligence Agency have handed over the information regarding it to the NIA. Reports said that soon after that a five-member team of the NIA visited Dubai for an investigation. Swapna’s visit to Bengaluru is also under investigation. Congress’ mouthpiece Veekshanam too had carried this news.