Santhosh Madhavan of Kerala - Interpol has issued a look-out notice

KOCHI: The City Police on Saturday night searched the residence of Santhosh Madhavan on whom Interpol has issued a look-out notice.
The police action comes on the basis of the complaint lodged via e-mail. The case against Santhosh Madhavan, also known as Amruta Chaitanya, was that he cheated an Indian national of four lakh Dirhams in Dubai and the Interpol website said arrest warrant had been issued in Dubai against him.
As there was no one at the apartment at the Royal Stadium Mansion complex at Kadavanthra, the police party broke open the lock and entered it. During the search the police took into custody a tiger skin, estimated to be worth nearly Rs.1.5 lakh, hundreds of adult film CDs, registration documents of land, a police officer’s uniform, some ganja, among others.
The search was led by P.M. Varghese, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Ernakulam.
Inspector General, Ernakulam Range, Vinson M. Paul, and City Police Commissioner Manoj Abraham visited the place.
Police searched the guest house owned by Santhosh Madhavan on SRM Road here on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the police have confirmed that Santhosh Madhavan in whose name a look-out notice has been issued on the website of the CBI on charges of possession of sophisticated weapons is a different person.
Police has raided a 16-suite ashram in Kochi on Thursday. Amritha Chaithanya alias Santosh Madhavan the godman, is wanted by Interpol since 2004 for fraud committed in the United Arab Emirates. Interpol has issued a red alert against the godman Santosh Madhavan 5 years old & Saifudeen Alikanu 47 years old after the Dubai government issued an arrest warrant against the duo in a fraud case.
Police raided follows an expose by a Malayalam weekly establishing the identity of the godman, known under the pseudonym Amritha Chaithanya. The report says that Madhavan & his accomplice had invested crores of rupees in real estate in Kerala & built up a network of influential friends & well-wishers.
Madhavan founded Shanthitheeram trust in his own name & his parents. The godman, a matriculate who claims to have learnt astrology & philosophy, roams around in a Mercedes Benz & invests the swindled money in building projects across the state. Police said after raided his ashram in Kochi that they were acting on the basis of several complaints.
A senior official of Police said, “We have got some complaints against the ashram. We are investigating the dealings of the institution. We found only a handful of staff in the ashram-guest house”.
The official said, “We received information that Santosh Madhavan has links with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim”.
Santhosh’s former wife told police in her statement that he was in constant touch with Nazar, a close aide of Dawood, via phone. She also said that she divorced her husband when he tried to sell her to underworld kings & prostitute centres in Dubai.