New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and former Union minister P Chidambaram was today questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) at the probe agency’s office in the capital after he was summoned in connection with the INX Media case.
Last month, the Delhi High Court had given Chidambaram protection from arrest till 15 January.
Official sources said the senior Congress leader has been asked to depose before the investigating officer (IO) of the case to record his statement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The central probe agency has earlier grilled Chidambaram’s son Karti Chidambaram in this case and has also attached his assets worth an estimated Rs 54 crore, located in India and abroad.
The ED had registered a PMLA case in the deal on the basis of a CBI FIR and had alleged that irregularities took place in the FIPB clearance to INX Media for receiving overseas funds of Rs 305 crore in 2007 when Chidambaram was the Union Finance minister.