Gold smuggling case accused Swapna Suresh joins RSS-backed NGO
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Thiruvananthapuram: Days after opening up herself to media, Swapna Suresh, the prime accused in the gold smuggling case, joined on Friday the RSS backed NGO, High Range Development Society (HRDS) India.
Swapna showed up at the NGO's Thodupuzha office in Idukki distict to become the Director-Corporate Social Responsibilities.
She said the new job would be her livelihood and controversies surrounding her would take their course.
Sources in HRDS said that Swapna would be working at the NGO's Corporate office in New Delhi. The NGO has operations in Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Tripura, Assam, Jharkhand besides Kerala, IANS reported.
Responding to the Enforcement Directorate's notice days ago, Swapna presented herself before it in the wake of new revelations against co-accused and IAS official M Sivasankar. The IAS official did time in jail before he got bail and was reinstated in office.
The gold smuggling case hogged limelight again when M. Sivasankar, the then principal secretary to Chief Minister, released an autobiography last month.
He let on in the book that 'He never did any favour to Swapna" also adding that he had never known the iPhone, gifted to him by her, was part of a bribe.
Swapna retorted that Sivasankar was aware of all the happenings, and blamed that he had destroyed her life.
She opened up that he had told her about taking voluntary retirement and settling down with her in the UAE.
It was with his help that she, along with her husband and children and their friend Sandip Nair, managed to sneak out of Kerala in July 2020 after the case surfaced, when the entire state was under massive Covid travel restrictions, Swapna claimed, reports IANS.
She also revealed that two audio clips - one that came out the day she and her family were sneaking to Bengaluru and the other put out during her custody - were all stage managed and directed by Sivasankar and others.