Chinese visa scam case: Congress leader Karti Chidambaram gets bail from Delhi Court
Chinese visa scam case: Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court has on June 6, granted “regular bail" to Congress leader Karti P Chidambaram in money laundering case, ANI reported.Earlier in April, Justice Kaveri Baweja, Special judge for Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) cases had granted interim bail to three accused in the case on personal bonds of ₹1 lakh each, as per a PTI report. Track | Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE Updates hereThese included Chidambaram's former chartered accountant S Bhaskararaman, besides Vikas Makharia and Mansoor Siddiqi, it added.The ED has registered a money laundering case against Karti Chidambaram and other accused in the alleged scam pertaining to issuance of visa to 263 Chinese nationals in 2011 when his father and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram was the Union Home Minister.Also Read | Nitish Kumar's two-word advice to Narendra Modi at NDA meeting: ‘Jaldi Kijiye’As per the ED, the volume of the laundered money is yet to be established and the alleged payment of ₹50 lakh bribe, as mentioned in the CBl case, cannot be considered as the basis of the present case.The ED registered its case under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) following an FIR lodged by the CBI in the same case.Chidambaram was latest in the news for defeating AIADMK's Xavierdass by a margin of 2,05,664 votes from Sivaganga Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu in the just concluded General Elections.Also Read | Bill Gates memoir 'Source Code' next year: Early years, nearly being kicked out of Harvard, Microsoft & more…Chidambaram won Sivaganga Lok Sabha seat with 4,27,677 votes on June 4.
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