{"id":122787,"date":"2018-01-13T15:51:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T10:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=122787"},"modified":"2018-01-13T15:51:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T10:21:35","slug":"comedy-of-errors-says-chidambaram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/comedy-of-errors-says-chidambaram\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedy of errors says Chidambaram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former finance minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday termed the Enforcement Directorate&#8217;s raids at his Delhi and Chennai residences as a &#8220;comedy of errors&#8221; and asserted that the agency had no jurisdiction to probe the matter under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ED conducted raids at Chidambaram&#8217;s son Karthis premises in Delhi and Chennai in connection with the Aircel Maxis money laundering case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122788 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/chidambaram-kB7H-621x414@LiveMint.jpg\" alt=\"Comedy of errors says Chidambaram\" width=\"621\" height=\"414\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;There is no FIR registered concerning a scheduled crime by any investigating agency and hence, the ED has no jurisdiction to probe the case under PMLA,&#8221; the former finance minister said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Adding that he had already anticipated that the ED might conduct such a raid today, Chidambaram said that the agency officials found &#8220;nothing&#8221; during the raid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former finance minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday termed the Enforcement Directorate&#8217;s raids at his Delhi and Chennai residences as a &#8220;comedy of errors&#8221; and asserted that the agency had no jurisdiction to probe the matter under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). The ED conducted raids at Chidambaram&#8217;s son Karthis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[63023,63022,63021,63020,48777,48161,53859,8903,309,15581],"class_list":["post-122787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-aircel-maxis-money-laundering-case","tag-comedy-of-errors","tag-delhi-and-chennai","tag-enforcement-directorates","tag-fir-registered","tag-former-finance-minister","tag-money-laundering-act","tag-p-chidambaram","tag-saturday","tag-senior-congress-leader"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P-Chidambaram-min.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}