New Delhi: A special court on Friday issued production warrant for P. Chidambaram on a plea by Enforcement Directorate seeking his custody in the INX Media money laundering case. The senior Congress leader is currently in judicial custody in the case filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Chidambaram will be produced in the court on Monday.
It was submitted by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta that the custodial interrogation would help the investigating Agency to unravel the laundering of proceed of the crime which have crossed the border of the country and have been parked in foreign countries.
The special court on 3 October extended the judicial custody of Chidambaram till 17 October in the case filed by the CBI.
The Delhi High Court had on 30 September dismissed the bail plea of the veteran Congress leader in the money laundering and corruption case related to INX Media. Justice Suresh Kait had then said Chidambaram was not a flight risk but can possibly influence witnesses.
The Central Bureau of Investigation registered an FIR in May 2017 for alleged irregularities in the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance to INX media for receiving overseas funds to the tune of ₹305 crore in 2007, when Chidambaram was the finance minister in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)-1 government. Thereafter, the ED lodged a money laundering cases against him.