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

The federal company has filed its case beneath the felony sections of the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA) taking cognisance of a up to date first data file via the CBI in the similar case, they stated.

 

The case relates to allegations of Rs 50 lakh being paid as bribe to Karti and his shut affiliate S Bhaskararaman via a best government of Vedanta workforce corporate Talwandi Sabo Energy Ltd. (TSPL), which was once environment an influence plant in Punjab, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) FIR had stated.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) will probe the imaginable “proceeds of crime” that will have been generated because of the alleged criminality, they stated.

The accused will likely be puzzled as a part of the investigation, they stated.

Karti Chidambaram has denied all allegations and stated “if this isn’t harassment, no longer a witch hunt, then what’s.”

 

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