Between the lockdown and the corona transition, the ED has filed a charge sheet against Congress leader P. Chidambaram and his son Karti in the INX Media money-laundering case. The central agency filed a password protected e-charge sheet against Chidambaram and his son Karti in the special court of Special Judge Ajay Kumar in Delhi. The judge, who is hearing the case, ordered that when the functioning of the court becomes normal, the agency should also submit a hard copy of the charge sheet.
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Apart from Chidambaram, Chartered Accountant SS Bhaskar Raman and others are also named. It is known that CBI arrested former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on August 21 last year in the INX Media corruption case. Later, the ED was also arrested on October 16 last year in a money laundering case related to it. Six days later, on October 22, the Supreme Court granted bail to Congress leader Chidambaram in the case registered by the CBI.
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The CBI had last year protested against Chidambaram's bail, saying that the former Finance Minister had misused the post for his own benefit. However, on December 4 last year, Congress leader Chidambaram got bail in the case filed by ED. It is alleged that in the year 2007, the then Union Finance Minister Chidambaram allegedly did not follow the rules in giving approval of Foreign Investment Promotion Board to get foreign investment of INR 305 crores for INX Media. CBI registered a case in this case on 15 May 2017.
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