New Delhi, May 17 (PTI) The CBI has registered a new case against 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 started searches at nine premises of Chidambaram in Chennai and other cities in the country, in connection with an ongoing case against his son Karti Chidambaram, the Congress MP from Sivaganga, they said.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is conducting searches at multiple residential and official premises of senior Congress leader P Chidambaram across Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Sivagangai in Tamil Nadu, sources said today.
According to sources, the investigative agency has registered a fresh case against Karti Chidambaram for allegedly receiving illegal gratification. Sources say that the Congress MP facilitated the project visa for a company for a power project in Punjab in lieu of illegal gratification between 2010-14.
The searches are linked to allegations that Chidambaram took illegal gratification of â¹50 lakh for facilitating visas for some Chinese nationals for working in a project in Punjab.
Karti Chidambaram is being probed in several cases, including the one relating to Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance to INX Media for receiving foreign funds to the tune of â¹ 305 crore when his father was the finance minister.
The CBI registered a corruption case in the matter on May 15, 2017. Subsequently, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) lodged the money laundering case.
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