Chinese Visa Scam: ED registers Money Laundering case against Congress MP Karti Chidambaram and others
The Enforcement Directorate has registered a money laundering case against Congress MP Karti Chidambaram and others in the alleged scam pertaining to the issuance of visas to 263 Chinese nationals in 2011. In 2011, Karti’s father P. Chidambaram was the Home Minister.
The federal agency has filed its case under the criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) taking cognizance of a recent first information report by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the same case.
The CBI FIR had said, the case pertains to allegations of 50 lakh rupees being paid as a bribe to Karti and his close associate S. Bhaskararaman by a top executive of a company, which was setting up a power plant in Punjab. Karti Chidambaram has denied all allegations.
