GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 17th May. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a fresh case against Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Karti Chidambaram, son of former finance minister P Chidambaram, for allegedly receiving illegal gratification, officials said on Tuesday.
Following the registration of the FIR, the CBI on Tuesday morning begun searches at nine premises of Karti Chidambaram in Chennai and other cities in the country, the officials said.
In Delhi, the central investigation agency searched the 80 Lodhi Estate residence of Karti on Tuesday morning.
“The CBI is conducting searches at multiple locations (residence and office) of Karti Chidambaram, in connection with an ongoing case”, said Karti Chidambaram’s office.
There were a total of seven members in the Central Bureau of Investigation team.
Karti Chidambaram was not at his house during the raid at 7.30 am, said Birbal Singh, the security guard posted at Karti Chidambaram’s residence.
The CBI team members questioned the staff present at Karti Chidambaram’s Delhi residence and took some papers with them.
In the meantime, searches are being conducted in various residential and official premises of Chidambaram across Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Sivagangai in Tamil Nadu.
“I have lost count,” tweeted Karti Chidambaram while responding to CBI searches at his premises.
According to sources, three places are being raided in Mumbai while two each in Chennai and Sivaganga, his Parliamentary constituency.
Karti Chidambaram is being investigated in cases registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation, including the case registered on May 15, 2017 over irregularities in a Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance granted to INX Media group for receiving overseas funds of Rs 305 crore in 2007 during P Chidambaram’s tenure as the Union Finance Minister.
Thereafter, the Enforcement Directorate had also filed a money laundering case. The ED had registered a PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) case based on FIR by the CBI and alleged that irregularities took place in the FIPB clearance to INX media.
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