New Delhi, June 9 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has broadened its investigation in the Cochin Minerals and Rutile Limited (CMRL) case *on the allegation that the firm had made* fictitious expenditure amounting to Rs 1.72 crores towards software services purportedly rendered by ex-Keralam Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's daughter Veena and her firm Exalogic Solutions Pvt Ltd, despite "no services having actually been rendered".

ED's inputs shared before Kerala High Court also mention the findings allegedly unearthed during the search operation carried out in January 2019 by the Cochin Income Tax Department, in which it is alleged that CMRL had inflated its expenditure by booking fictitious cash expenses under the heads of "transpor...