THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Swapna Suresh, accused in the gold smuggling case, slammed the chief minister for his statement in the assembly that he doesn’t know her personally and that he has not spoken to her. She said the chief minister is lying. While talking to the media, she said that she had done many business dealings for the chief minister’s family.

‘I had gone to his official residence for personal matters and had held talks with him alone. I had gone there with the consul general also. Had gone there to talk about my job. Had travelled many times to the Gulf for the business dealings of the chief minister and his daughter along with Sivasankar and alone also.’

‘All those were following the demand of the chief minister, his wife and children. I challenge the chief minister to prove that he doesn’t know me. Will he be ready to ready to release the CCTV visuals if I say the dates and the vehicle number of visiting him.’

‘Before getting a job in Space Park, I spoke to the chief minister for the job in NORKA. I had informed C M Raveendran on meeting the chief minister. M Sivasankar had talked to many including NORKA CEO and reached an agreement. Sivasankar intervened in my job matters with the permission of the chief minister,’ she said.