ED raids at Karti Chidambaram's premises in the INX media money laundering case
ED raids at Karti Chidambaram's premises in the INX media money laundering case
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NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate (ED) today held raids at Karti Chidambaram's location in Delhi and Chennai in the INX media money laundering case.

On Thursday, ED had issued fresh summons to Karti Chidambaram who is the son of senior Congress leader and ex FM P Chidambaram, after he left out his appearance before it in links with the INX Media money laundering case probe.

 As per Govt Official sources, he has now been called by the agency on January 16

Earlier this month the investigating officer (IO) of the case had summoned Karti for the appearance on Thursday, which he left out.

The central investigation agency had registered a case against Karti and others in May this year in which Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR), the ED's equivalent of a police FIR, lodged against the alleged named in a CBI complaint, together with Karti Chidambaram, INX Media and its directors, Peter and Indrani Mukerjea.

The ECIR was filed a complaint under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

ED had provided information about the alleged illegal payments made by INX Media and consequentially Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had registered FIR.

The CBI had also held search operations at the homes and offices of Karti Chidambaram across four cities for allegedly getting money from the media firm to ruin a tax investigation.

Also few days before the CBI had lodged the FIR against Karti Chidambaram and the Mukerjeas on charges of criminal conspiracy, cheating, getting the illegal indulgence, influencing public servants and criminal delinquency.

 

 

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