The ED has seized a CBI draft report on the Aircel-Maxis deal case which was later submitted to the Supreme Court in a sealed cover by it in 2013.
Facing flak over sharing confidential documents with former Finance Minister P Chidambaram, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has launched an internal probe into the matter to find out who leaked the information.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) found a confidential Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) report at the Jor Bagh residence of the former finance minister during a raid on January 13. Chidambaram had then termed the raids carried out by ED as "comedy of errors" and the officers were left "embarrassed and apologetic".
"We have received the communication from ED regarding the recovery of CBI's confidential report on Aircel Maxis scam case from Chidambaram's residence, we are looking into the matter," said an official release from the CBI.
The agency had searched a number of premises in Delhi and Chennai, linked to Chidambaram's son Karti Chidambaram. Subsequently, the ED sent an official note to the CBI informing it about the recovery and seizure of the document.
The ED has seized a CBI draft report on the Aircel-Maxis deal case which was later submitted to the Supreme Court in a sealed cover by it in 2013. The CBI had filed the report to the apex court double bench of Justices GS Singhvi and K Radhakrishnan on August 1, 2013.
The raids were carried out by the ED pertaining to a Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) approval granted in 2006 by the then finance minister P Chidambaram.
Karti is being probed for receiving alleged kickbacks in getting FIPB clearance in the Aircel Maxis deal when his father was union Finance Minister.
The Aircel-Maxis deal is being probed by both ED and CBI and the case is a part of the overall probe in the 2G scam case. In 2006, Aircel was sold to Maxis, owned by Malaysian billionaire T Ananda Krishnan. According to the CBI's chargesheet, the Mauritius-based Global Communication Services Holdings, a subsidiary of Maxis, had requested approval for an investment of 800 million dollars in Aircel.
Though a cabinet panel led by the Prime Minister should have signed off on the deal, the CBI alleged, then finance minister P Chidambaram unilaterally cleared it.
The agency further stated alleged that Chess Management Services Pvt. Ltd, a company promoted by Karti and A Palaniappan, nephew of P Chidambaram, received a sum of USD 2 lakh approximately from Maxis group.
The ED had alleged that Karti has disposed of a property in Gurgaon, which he had allegedly rented out to a multinational company to whom foreign direct investment (FDI) approval had been granted in 2013.
Karti is also being probed by the ED in an another money laundering case pertaining to the INX media deal.
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