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ED officials found nothing ,took away some documents : Chidambaram

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ED officials found nothing ,took away some documents : Chidambaram
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ED officials found nothing ,took away some documents : Chidambaram : Former finance minister and congress leader P. Chidambaram reacting on the raids on various premises of his son by ED said that the Enforcement Directorate officials found nothing during the raid at his residence and took away a few documents to validate their action. Chidambaram said the ED has "no jurisdiction" to conduct such raids under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. Chidambaram said that the ED officials raided and found nothing but just to justifify their action they took away some papers from the residence of Karti. He further said the central agency was not authorized to investigate under the act. He also said that there is no FIR concerning a scheduled crime by the CBI or any Police agency. Chidambram said"Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued notice on the cases filed by my son Karti Chidambaram. These cases have been filed sometime ago, notices were issued yesterday and the respondents were asked to file their reply if they wish to and the cases posted for hearing on January 30. The main ground in the case is that there is no FIR in respect of a scheduled crime registered by any police agency including the CBI”.ED found nothing, so took few documents to justify themselves: ChidambaramChidambaram also said he had yesterday itself anticipated that as the notices were issued by the SC, "the ED has to conduct some drama in order to cover up some track and hence will conduct searches in Chennai." Speaking about the raid at Delhi's Jor Bagh, Chidambaram said, "In the comedy of errors they came to search the premises in Delhi's Jor Bagh and offices and told me they believed that Karti Chidambaram was the occupant of the house I told them otherwise." It is to be noticed that ED had conducted a raid at the residences of Karti Chidambaram , the son of former union minister P. Chidambaram in Delhi and Chennai in the Aircel-Maxis case.According to sources, the ED officials reached there at 7.30 a.m. There were about five officials at their residence. In October last year, investigating agency had found Foreign Investment Promotion Board approval given by P. Chidambaram in Aircel-Maxis case was beyond his mandate. The law enforcement agency, in its investigation, also found that the amount of FIPB approval was wrongly projected to conceal the facts. It also found that the company promoted by Karti and P Chidambaram's nephew allegedly received two lakh dollars from Maxis Group in the guise of software consultancy. The Aircel-Maxis deal refers to a series of allegations of kickbacks in the telecom sector, which was part of the wider 2G scam that engulfed the UPA regime. - PTC News-
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