ED grills Karti Chidambaram for 11 hours
January 18, 2018  23:55
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Karti Chidambaram, the son of senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, was questioned for about 11 hours by officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the INX Media money laundering case today.

Karti Chidambaram was summoned by the agency to appear before the Investigating Officer (IO) of the case today.

Official sources said Karti Chidambaram was asked a number of questions on his role in the case and his statement was recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

He arrived at the ED office in New Delhi around 11:30 am and left after 10:30 pm.

"Whatever I stated here (in the ED) has been clearly stated in my petitions in the court (in this case). It has been a long day but there were questions which had to be typed, so it took a little long time," Karti Chidambaram told reporters after he came out of the ED office.

He has moved various courts including the Madras high court and the Supreme Court in response to the ED's action against him.

Karti Chidambaram's authorised representative had met the IO of the case on the last two occasions and the central probe agency had then asked him to appear in person.

The central probe agency had registered a case against him and others in May last year.

It had registered an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR), the ED's equivalent of a police FIR, against the accused named in a CBI complaint, including Karti Chidambaram, INX Media and its directors, Peter and Indrani Mukerjea.

The ECIR was lodged under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

The sources said that the ED is probing the alleged "proceeds of crime" generated in this case.   -- PTI
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