THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Vigilance's investigation in the Life bribery case is almost confined. This is after vigilance confirmed the finding of ED that the one crore rupees seized from Swapna's bank locker was a bribe in the Wadakkanchery Life scheme and 8 people including Sivashankar were accused. A case was registered by vigilance on charges of corruption to prevent the CBI investigation. The government argued against the CBI even in the Supreme Court citing this. The Supreme Court ruled that the CBI investigation could continue.

SP KE Baiju, who headed the vigilance investigation, has been transferred from vigilance to Kozhikode. Investigating officers also split ways. All the files were seized by the vigilance and only copies were obtained by the CBI. Original files were requested by CBI from vigilance but not provided.

CBI had to go to court for this. Vigilance dropped its move to question some of the chief minister's staff members and the political leadership after the chief minister said in a press conference that they can only wish to question the chief minister and the LSGD minister.

Vigilance found that M Sivashankar, who was the principal secretary to the Chief Minister, was aware of all the transactions. The MoU was signed with Red Crescent on 11th July 2019. Unitac owner Santosh Eepan handed over 3.8 crore bribe to Khalid, an accountant at the consulate, on August 2. Of this, one crore was rupees and the rest was in dollars. Khalid handed over one crore rupees to Swapna. The very next day, with the help of a chartered accountant, Swapna opened the locker at SBI and deposited some money. Swapna had revealed to the Vigilance that she had opened a locker in the Federal Bank that evening and kept the remaining money.UV Jose, who was the CEO of Life, had given a statement to Vigilance that Sivashankar informed him at the last minute that the legal department had approved the MoU, and that he had to sign it as an officer in charge.