New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a money laundering case in an alleged Chinese visa scam involving former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram's son and Congress Lok Sabha MP Karti Chidambaram. Media reports have given information in this regard quoting the investigating agency officials.
Earlier on Monday, the court had extended the remand of Bhaskar Ramana, the son of former Union Minister P Chidambaram and chartered accountant of Congress leader Karti Chidambaram, who is accused in the visa-granting case to Chinese nationals, by three more days. The investigating agency had arrested Bhaskar Raman after questioning him on Tuesday. In fact, 250 Chinese nationals working in a power company in Punjab were issued visas by the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is investigating the case. This is the case of the year 2011. Visas to Chinese nationals were issued within a month which was more than the prescribed limit.
The CBI, in its statement, has alleged that the application for the visa was made after a meeting between a person and an official of a power company in Chennai. The CBI has alleged that P Chidambaram was a minister in the Congress-led central government at that time and the visas were issued with the help of Karti Chidambaram.
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