Supporters of former Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s attacked a team of the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The 12-member ED team arrived at 7 a.m. Wednesday to raid 10 locations, including Pinarayi home at Bakery Junction in Thiruvananthapuram, in connection with a money laundering case.
This is Pinarayi’s /rented house. Vijayan and his family were present at the time of the raid. As news spread, supporters began gathering outside his house.
Tension at former #Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan's house
CPM workers attack ED officials who went to investigate money laundering case, destroy their car
Police injured while trying to stop CPM workers https://t.co/t2Ij5xg7ds pic.twitter.com/5q9EOMgad9
— Siraj Noorani (@sirajnoorani) May 27, 2026When the team emerged around 2 p.m., they were surrounded by CPI activists. The crowd threw stones and bottles at the officers’ vehicles. The car windows were broken and they were also attacked with sticks.
Raids on 10 locations of Vijayan in 4 cities
- Thiruvananthapuram: Raid on former Chief Minister Pinarayi rented house at Bakery Junction. His daughter Veena also lives there.
- Kannur: Pinarayi ancestral home.
- Kozhikode: Raid on the house of Vijayan’s son-in-law and CPI(M) MLA P.A. Mohammed Riyas.
- Aluva: Raid on the corporate office of CMRL and the house of the company’s MD Sasidharan Kartha.
‘Rahul must have been satisfied with the ED raid’- Pinarayi
Pinarayi’s statement on the ED raid came out. He said, “The ED has been wanting to search my house for quite some time. I think this search will give great satisfaction to some people, especially someone like Rahul Gandhi.”
Rahul Gandhi had asked the same question: why his house wasn’t raided and why he wasn’t arrested. He said the BJP government has always deliberately attacked opposition leaders in the country.
Raid involved daughter’s company, a 7-year-old case
The ED conducted this raid in connection with a money laundering case involving a company owned by Vijayan’s daughter, T. Veena. Veena’s company, Exalogic Solutions, received ₹1.72 crore in monthly payments from Cochin Minerals and Rutile Limited (CMRL) in 2018-19, but Exalogic Solutions did not provide any services in return.
The ED believes this transaction is suspicious. The Income Tax Department had previously raised questions about this payment between CMRL and Exalogic. Based on this, the ED has subsequently initiated a money laundering investigation.
A day earlier on Tuesday, the Kerala High Court dismissed CMRL’s petition in the same case, seeking to quash the ED investigation. The ED had filed a PMLA case in 2024 to investigate the allegations.
The issue has been one of the most politically sensitive controversies facing the Vijayan government. In addition to the ED investigation, the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) is also probing the case.
