<p>New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a fresh chargesheet against Congress MP Karti Chidambaram and some others in a money laundering case linked to alleged issuance of visas to some Chinese nationals in 2011, official sources said.</p>.<p>The prosecution complaint was filed on January 25 by the central agency before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court, which is yet to take cognisance of it, the sources said.</p>.<p>Apart from Karti Chidambaram, the son of senior Congress leader and former Union minister P Chidambaram, the ED has named his close associate S Bhaskararaman and some others in the chargesheet.</p>.<p>The court has listed the matter for hearing on March 16, the sources said.</p>.<p>Karti Chidambaram, 52, is a Lok Sabha MP from Sivaganga seat in Tamil Nadu and the agency has recorded his statement in the case a number of times.</p>.<p>The MP earlier has said the ED probe in this case was a 'fishing and roving' enquiry and that he has submitted all documents to the agency. </p>.'Is this good governance?': Chidambaram slams BJP after UP Police recruitment exam cancelled.<p>He had called the case 'most bogus', asserting he was 'certain that he never facilitated even a single Chinese national in their visa process, let alone 250'. </p><p>He had said that this case was an attempt to target his father P Chidambaram through him.</p>.<p>The money laundering case of the ED stems from a CBI FIR.</p>.<p>The probe pertains to allegations of Rs 50 lakh being paid as kickbacks to Karti Chidambaram and S Bhaskararaman by a top executive of Vedanta group company Talwandi Sabo Power Ltd (TSPL), which was setting up a power plant in Punjab, according to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) FIR.</p>.<p>According to the CBI, the work for setting up the power project was being executed by a Chinese company and was running behind schedule.</p>.<p>A TSPL executive had sought re-issuance of project visas for 263 Chinese workers for which Rs 50 lakh allegedly exchanged hands, according to the CBI FIR.</p>.<p> The CBI had last year raided the premises of the Chidambaram family and arrested Bhaskararaman. It had questioned Karti Chidambaram.</p>.<p>This is the third money laundering probe against Karti Chidambaram with the INX Media and Aircel-Maxis cases being probed by the ED for some years now.</p>.<p>Karti Chidambaram has been charge sheeted in these two cases by the agency in the past.</p>
<p>New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a fresh chargesheet against Congress MP Karti Chidambaram and some others in a money laundering case linked to alleged issuance of visas to some Chinese nationals in 2011, official sources said.</p>.<p>The prosecution complaint was filed on January 25 by the central agency before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court, which is yet to take cognisance of it, the sources said.</p>.<p>Apart from Karti Chidambaram, the son of senior Congress leader and former Union minister P Chidambaram, the ED has named his close associate S Bhaskararaman and some others in the chargesheet.</p>.<p>The court has listed the matter for hearing on March 16, the sources said.</p>.<p>Karti Chidambaram, 52, is a Lok Sabha MP from Sivaganga seat in Tamil Nadu and the agency has recorded his statement in the case a number of times.</p>.<p>The MP earlier has said the ED probe in this case was a 'fishing and roving' enquiry and that he has submitted all documents to the agency. </p>.'Is this good governance?': Chidambaram slams BJP after UP Police recruitment exam cancelled.<p>He had called the case 'most bogus', asserting he was 'certain that he never facilitated even a single Chinese national in their visa process, let alone 250'. </p><p>He had said that this case was an attempt to target his father P Chidambaram through him.</p>.<p>The money laundering case of the ED stems from a CBI FIR.</p>.<p>The probe pertains to allegations of Rs 50 lakh being paid as kickbacks to Karti Chidambaram and S Bhaskararaman by a top executive of Vedanta group company Talwandi Sabo Power Ltd (TSPL), which was setting up a power plant in Punjab, according to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) FIR.</p>.<p>According to the CBI, the work for setting up the power project was being executed by a Chinese company and was running behind schedule.</p>.<p>A TSPL executive had sought re-issuance of project visas for 263 Chinese workers for which Rs 50 lakh allegedly exchanged hands, according to the CBI FIR.</p>.<p> The CBI had last year raided the premises of the Chidambaram family and arrested Bhaskararaman. It had questioned Karti Chidambaram.</p>.<p>This is the third money laundering probe against Karti Chidambaram with the INX Media and Aircel-Maxis cases being probed by the ED for some years now.</p>.<p>Karti Chidambaram has been charge sheeted in these two cases by the agency in the past.</p>