Aircel-Maxis case: P Chidambaram, son Karti named in CBI chargesheet

Former finance minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti Chidambaram were named in a charge sheet by the CBI in the Aircel-Maxis deal case on Thursday.

The agency filed its supplementary charge sheet before special CBI judge O P Saini who fixed it for considering on July 31.

The CBI was conducting probe as to how Chidambaram, who was the finance minister in 2006, granted Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) approval to a foreign firm when only Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) was empowered to do it.

The senior Congress leader's role had come under the scanner of investigating agencies in the Aircel-Maxis deal of Rs 35 billion and INX Media case involving Rs 3.05 billion.

In its charge sheet filed earlier in the case against former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran, his brother Kalanithi Maran and others, the agency had alleged that Chidambaram had granted FIPB approval in March 2006 to Mauritius-based Global Communication Services Holdings Ltd, a subsidiary of Maxis.