The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has widened the scope of its investigation into the CMRL-Exalogic money laundering case to the first Left Democratic Front (LDF) government in Kerala. Sources said the ED suspects that payments made by Cochin Minerals and Rutile Ltd (CMRL) to Exalogic Solutions – the firm owned by Veena Vijayan, the daughter of former chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan – may have been in return for favours allegedly extended to the mining company by the state government. The agency is also examining transactions and official decisions taken during the first Pinarayi Vijayan-led government as part of its expanding probe.
