<p>An Egyptian national and former employee of the UAE consulate in Kerala is likely to be arraigned in a case related to smuggling of dollars, which came to light during the probe into the gold smuggling case</p>.<p>The customs on Tuesday filed an application at the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate court for economic offences in Kochi seeking a non-bailable warrant against Khaled Mohamed Ali Shoukry, who was a former finance wing head at the consulate, on charges of smuggling 1,90,000 dollars received as commission.</p>.<p>Shoukry allegedly smuggled the dollars to Egypt through Oman in August 2019.</p>.<p>Gold smuggling case accused and former executive secretary at the consulate Swapna Suresh had given statement in this regard to the customs earlier. She, as well as another accused Sarith P S, had also accompanied Shoukry up to Oman to ensure hassle-free smuggling.</p>.<p>Customs said in the report that a case has been already registered in connection with dollar smuggling and Shoukry may be made an accused in the case. The court will consider the application on Thursday </p>.<p>Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's former secretary M Sivasankar, who was held by ED in connection with his nexus with gold smuggling accused, had allegedly pressurised a bank manager to give dollars to Swapna for cash.</p>
<p>An Egyptian national and former employee of the UAE consulate in Kerala is likely to be arraigned in a case related to smuggling of dollars, which came to light during the probe into the gold smuggling case</p>.<p>The customs on Tuesday filed an application at the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate court for economic offences in Kochi seeking a non-bailable warrant against Khaled Mohamed Ali Shoukry, who was a former finance wing head at the consulate, on charges of smuggling 1,90,000 dollars received as commission.</p>.<p>Shoukry allegedly smuggled the dollars to Egypt through Oman in August 2019.</p>.<p>Gold smuggling case accused and former executive secretary at the consulate Swapna Suresh had given statement in this regard to the customs earlier. She, as well as another accused Sarith P S, had also accompanied Shoukry up to Oman to ensure hassle-free smuggling.</p>.<p>Customs said in the report that a case has been already registered in connection with dollar smuggling and Shoukry may be made an accused in the case. The court will consider the application on Thursday </p>.<p>Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's former secretary M Sivasankar, who was held by ED in connection with his nexus with gold smuggling accused, had allegedly pressurised a bank manager to give dollars to Swapna for cash.</p>
