Karti Chidambaram appears before ED for ‘20th time’, says Chinese visa case is ‘dead, dormant, and closed’
Karti Chidambaram told reporters the Chinese Visa case was ‘dead, dormant, and closed’. Congress MP Karti Chidambaram is accused of receiving ₹50 lakh to facilitate the issuance of visas for 263 Chinese nationals, so that they could complete work on power project in Punjab. Calling his appearance before the investigative agency a ‘routine affair’, Karti Chidambaram noted that it was his 20th appearance before the Enforcement Directorate.
"This is my 20th visit to the ED office. It is becoming a routine affair. They ask the same things, and I give the same answers.
It is a dead, dormant and closed case. The CBI has practically closed this matter but they (ED) want to reopen it and question me in connection with it," the Congress leader told news agency ANI. Karti Chidambaram added that his lawyers have submitted a 100-page reply in connection with the case.
"My lawyers have already replied extensively and given them a 100-page reply. I'll repeat the same. It is the season of Christmas and it appears that they missed and, hence, summoned me again.
We are here to exchange Christmas greetings (with the ED)," Karti Chidambaram said. The central agency filed a money laundering case in the alleged Chinese visa scam case in May last year. "The ED has filed a case under the criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, taking cognisance of a recent First Information Report registered by the CBI in the case," an official said earlier.
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