Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, June 3: A special CBI court denied Congress MP Karti Chidambaram’s request on Friday for anticipatory release in a money laundering case related to the Chinese visa scam.
Karti Chidambaram, his CA S Bhaskar Raman, and another accused in the money laundering case recently brought by the Enforcement Directorate following the CBI case were granted anticipatory bail on May 30.
Notably, Karti was named as the first culprit in the case in the CBI’s FIR on May 17. The FIR was registered after the central probe agency raided ten locations across the country including the Chidambarams’ residence in Delhi and Chennai respectively.
Karti Chidambaram allegedly arranged visas for Chinese nationals to work in a power project in Punjab in exchange for a bribe of Rs 50 lakh, when his father, P Chidambaram, was the union home minister in 2011. Karti has already stated that he is not involved in the matter at all.
