The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday conducted raids across nine properties linked to Karti P Chidambaram, son of former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram, sources told News18.
The raids were conducted early morning Tuesday at nine locations in Chennai (3), Mumbai (3), Karnataka (1), Punjab (1) and Odisha (1) in a case related to foreign remittance received by Karti between 2010 and 2014. The raids at the former minister’s residence in Chennai ended after more than eleven hours.
Karti had allegedly received Rs 50 Lakh from a person named Sabu, CBI sources said.
According to sources, the CBI has registered a fresh case against Karti Chidambaram for issuing visas to Chinese citizens when P Chidambaram was Union Home Minister during the UPA-II government. Six people including Karti Chidambaram and his close associate S Bhaskararaman has been named in the FIR. Report state officials have found a mail trail between Bhaskararaman and Karti Chidambaram.
Earlier in 2019, the CBI had raided 16 properties linked to Karti P Chidambaram in a case regarding the foreign investment clearances approved by the Centre’s Foreign Investment Promotion Board to media firms in 2007 during the United Progressive Alliance rule. He is already under probe in getting Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance for INX media.
I have lost count, how many times has it been? Must be a record.— Karti P Chidambaram (@KartiPC) May 17, 2022
Karti Chidambaram promptly responded to the raids on Twitter by saying, “I have lost count, how many times has it been? Must be a record.”
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Tuesday said a CBI team searched his residence in Chennai as well as his official residence in Delhi but “found nothing and seized nothing”. The former Union minister also said the “timing of the search is interesting”.
In a statement, Chidambaram said this morning, a CBI team searched his residence in Chennai and his official residence here. “The team showed me an FIR in which I am not named as an accused. The search team found nothing and seized nothing,” he said. “I may point out that the timing of the search is interesting,” he added.
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