Messi visit SIT probe: police launch search operations at five locations

The police are conducting search operations at five locations, including the head office of the Reporting Broadcasting Corporation (RBC) at Kalamassery in Ernakulam district, Keralam, as part of the Special Investigation Team’s (SIT) probe into alleged financial misappropriation and tax evasion linked to a failed attempt to bring the Argentina national team and its legendary former captain Lionel Messi for an international friendly match in Kochi during the previous LDF government’s tenure.

The residences of RBC managing director Anto Augustine, along with those of his brothers and co-owners Roji Augustine and Jose Kutty Augustine, as well as the house of administrative head Shah Feena Mehar Ali, are also being searched.