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The agency arrested Bineesh on October 29 in a money laundering case linked to a drug seizure in Karnataka and took him into its custody for four days to interrogate him.

The Enforcement Directorate, probing a money laundering case against Bineesh Kodiyeri, son of Kerala CPI(M) secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, on Wednesday conducted searches at his house in Thiruvananthapuram, as also multiple locations in the city and various parts of Kerala. An ED team from Bengaluru conducted searches at his house, besides many locations here and in northern Kerala, sources said.

An exceptional court in Bengaluru had on Monday stretched out the care of Bineesh to the Enforcement Directorate by five additional days. The ED had created Bineesh under the watchful eye of the extraordinary court managing the illegal tax avoidance cases as the four-day care reached a conclusion on November 2.

The office captured Bineesh on October 29 of every a tax evasion case connected to a medication seizure in Karnataka and brought him into its guardianship for four days to examine him. On Sunday night, he supposedly whined of back agony following which he was taken to the Bowring Hospital in that city for a registration.

The focal organization claimed that the “drug seller” for the situation, Mohammed Anoop, was a “benamidar” of Bineesh. The ED test comes from a Narcotics Control Bureau examination that professed to have busted a rapture pills drug dealing with racket Karnataka in August, alongside the capture of Anoop and two others.

Bineesh has kept up that he knew Anoop and his family and the last had acquired cash from him and some others to set up an eatery business in Bengaluru a couple of years back.