Chinese visa rip-off: ED registers cash laundering case in opposition to Karti Chidambaram, others

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The ED has registered a cash laundering case in opposition to Congress MP Karti Chidambaram and others within the alleged rip-off pertaining to the issuance of visa to 263 Chinese nationals in 2011 when his father P Chidambaram was the house minister, officers mentioned on Wednesday.

The federal company has filed its case underneath the felony sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) taking cognisance of a current first info report by the CBI in the identical case, they mentioned.

The case pertains to allegations of Rs 50 lakh being paid as bribe to Karti and his shut affiliate S Bhaskararaman by a high govt of Vedanta group firm Talwandi Sabo Power Ltd. (TSPL), which was setting an influence plant in Punjab, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) FIR had mentioned.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) will probe the attainable “proceeds of crime” that would have been generated because of the alleged criminal activity, they mentioned. The accused shall be questioned as a part of the investigation, they mentioned. Karti Chidambaram has denied all allegations and mentioned “if this is not harassment, not a witch hunt, then what is.”