KOCHI: M Sivasankar, former principal secretary to the chief minister, has been released from jail after 98 days of incarceration. Sivasankar, who came out of Kakkanad sub jail refused to talk to the media. He has left for Thiruvananthapuram.

The economic offence special court in Ernakulam granted him bail in the dollar smuggling case. He was granted bail after furnishing a bond of Rs 2 lakh and two personal securities of the same amount. He will also have to appear before the investigating officer on all Mondays.

Sivasankar had claimed that he has no role in the dollar smuggling case and that the investigating team has only the statements of the accused in the gold smuggling case.

He has already got bails in the gold smuggling and money laundering cases. In the third case, he was charged for smuggling dollars to the UAE. The court granted him bail after the arguments by the customs were countered by his legal team.