Skeletons are tumbling out of the closet as Karti Chidambaram was arrested this morning in alleged scam in INX Group, which was owned by Peter and Indrani Mukherjea, over alleged Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) violations. Karti Chidambaram is accused of receiving kickbacks in 2007 to clear foreign investment worth around Rs. 300 crore in INX Media, using the influence of his father, P Chidambaram, the then Union Finance Minister.
As per documents accessed by Times Now, Indrani Mukherjee has claimed that she had met P Chidambaram at North Block in Central Secretariat.
Karti file case sheet accessed | Indrani names P. Chidambaram; Recounts meeting P. Chidambaram in north block #KartiArrested pic.twitter.com/Td7zeoAeyy
— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) February 28, 2018
Indrani, who is facing jail for allegedly murdering her daughter Sheena Bora, accused Chidambaram of trying to use his influence to get Indrani to pay bribe to Karti to the tune of 1 million dollars.
Indrani names Chidambaram; Recounts meet in the north block; ‘FM asked me to help his son’, ‘Instructed me to pay money’, Karti Chidambaram file case sheet accessed |@NikunjGargN shares more details #ChidambaramNamed pic.twitter.com/Evm2hVQjFh
— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) February 28, 2018
Karti has been flown from Chennai to Delhi by the CBI and Delhi’s Patiala House Court has sent him for 1 day police custody. Meanwhile, P Chidambaram has canceled his lecture at Oxford and is on his way back to India from London. You can read the FIR filed by CBI against Karti here.
