Karti Chidambaram took Rs 50 lakh bribe through close aide in Chinese visa case: ED

The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday alleged that Congress MP Karti Chidambaram took a Rs 50 lakh bribe through a close aide for getting sanction of the Union home ministry for reuse of visas for Chinese personnel by a company that was establishing a power plant in Punjab. It claimed that this alleged bribe was pumped into a company, where Karti Chidambaram was a director and had control, through a "fictitious" cash transaction.