In May 2017, the Enforcement Directorate had registered a money laundering case against Karti for his role in facilitating Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance for INX Media Ltd
The official said Karti Chidambaram and Mukerjea were brought face-to-face and questioned by the CBI team for about four hours.
New Delhi, 7 MarchFormer Union finance minister P Chidambaram and his son, Karti, are under the glare of investigative agencies for the approval, while the father was in charge of the ministry, of foreign investment in two cases. One involving Peter and Indrani Mukherjea's INX Media and the other being the Maxis group's investment in telecom company Aircel. Both approvals were routed through the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), housed in the department of economic affairs (DEA), under the finance ministry. It had four permanent members who were secretary-level officials, in addition to secretaries from the nodal ministry and other departments. Beside the secretary in the DEA who chaired FIPB, the secretaries of the departments of industrial policy & promotion, commerce and of economic relations in the ministry of external affairs were permanent members of the board. Karti Chidambaram is in the custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation in the INX case. The father had
SC had also allowed him to withdraw his plea pending with the apex court related to the money laundering case
Karti Chidambaram is accused of receiving kickbacks a decade back to clear foreign investment into INX Media group
Karti Chidambaram has been in CBI custody for questioning since his arrest from Chennai Airport on February 28
The apex court's order came hours after the high court extended Chidambaram's protection from arrest in the ED case from March 20 to March 22
Karti, is being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and ED for his alleged role in the INX Media case
Karti was arrested from Chennai on February 28 by the CBI alleging irregularities in a FIPB clearance given to INX Media for receiving funds of about Rs 3.05 billion from overseas in 2007 when his fat
The Central Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement Directorate has sought three more weeks to file reply on his anticipatory bail plea
Delhi Court had sent Peter Mukerjea to CBI custody till March 31 after the agency sought five-day custody of the former media baron
The CBI has claimed in its appeal that it was "impermissible" for the high court to entertain the bail plea filed by Karti when an application seeking similar relief was pending before the trial court
Chidambaram, 73, will be in judicial custody while he is kept in prison till September 19
The govt had already sanctioned the prosecution of former finance minister P Chidambaram in February this year
Karti, the Congress MP representing Sivaganga in Tamil Nadu, was summoned for a fresh round of grilling in the case, they added
Swamy pointed out that he had written a letter on March 20, 2017 as well
Aircel-Maxis deal refers to a series of allegations of kickbacks in the telecom sector, which was part of the wider 2G scam that engulfed the UPA regime
A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud asked Karti to serve the copy of the petition to the CBI counsel
Case pertains to FIPB nod in 2006 by then finance minister P Chidambaram; similar searches were conducted in December 2017, on Karti's relatives, others
Earlier on March 15, the apex court gave interim protection to Karti from arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the case till March 26