Karti Chidambaram calls ED investigation ‘fishing and roaming’ investigation
Congress Vice President Karti Chidambaram on Saturday sought exemption from hearing before the DE in connection with a fresh citation issued in a money laundering case related to the issuance of visas to some Chinese nationals in 2011, saying the investigation was an investigation. “Fishing and Traveling”. .and the time required to collect the documents.
The federal agency had first asked the 52-year-old MLA from Tamil Nadu’s Sivagangai electoral district to depose before investigators in the case in Delhi on December 12. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) asked for a comparison on December 16, after the deputy mentioned his participation in the ongoing parliamentary session.
The 2022 ED case pertains to allegations that a top official of Talvandi Sabo Power Ltd, a Vedanta group company, had paid Rs 50 lakh to Karti and his close aide S Bhaskararaman. (TSPL), which was setting up a power plant in Punjab, according to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) FIR.
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Karti, through his lawyer, sent a reply of over 100 pages to the case investigator adjusting details of his election declaration, his rent tax declaration, bank accounts and immovable properties, and also requested exemption from the hearing on Saturday. Also given time to present everyone. Documents required by the agency.
There was no immediate indication that the emergency department had considered his request.
Karti’s lawyer said that he is willing to appear before the agency and cooperate in the investigation and said that he has some arguments.
He told the ED that the charges against the MP were not disclosed in the final citation nor had he been called as an “accused or witness” in the case.
The MP said in the letter that the information and documents sought by him were nothing more than “an investigation into the nature of the fishing and traveller” and that the investigation had no reason to request the personal financial affairs of him and his family members. was not. ,
Karti told the ED that in the “spirit of cooperating in the investigation”, he submitted documents and records requested by the agency in the past, while information related to his financial affairs was in the public domain through his declaration as an election juror. Was available. , ,
The quoted MP submitted these documents to the DE 19 times between 2018 and 2019 in the INX Media and Aircel-Maxis case.
Confirmed that the final citation in his case was issued “mechanically” but he would still need time to re-submit the documents as they were “extremely voluminous in nature” and his office in Chennai and Were available in residence, but were in Delhi. “On account of the actual winter session of Parliament”.
Karti had told PTI earlier this week that the case was “very false” and his legal team would pursue it.
Last year, the CBI had raided the premises of the Chidambaram family and arrested Bhaskararaman while Karti was being interrogated.
