Not Satyendra Jain Only, Here Are The Other Prominent Opposition Leaders Booked In Money Laundering Cases: ED Probe

Days after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested senior Congress leader P Chidambaram's son, Karti Chidambaram, the agency on Monday arrested Delhi minister Satyendar Jain in connection with a money laundering case. Soon after the arrest, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal broke his silence on the detention and said that the case is "completely fake and politically motivated".

From AAP's Jain to Shiv Sena's Anil Parab, quite a few opposition leaders have come under the scanner of the ED in recent times. Here's a brief look at the cases:

Karti Chidambaram, Congress 

Congress MP Karti Chidambaram has been recently booked by the ED in the Chinese visa scam, pertaining to the issuance of visas to 263 Chinese nationals in 2011 when his father P Chidambaram was the home minister. According to media reports, when the ED was probing the INX Media case against the Chidambarams, it had stumbled upon evidence that Karti was offered a bribe of Rs 50 lakh



to facilitate the visas of Chinese workers for a thermal project in Punjab. The bribe was offered to Karti's Chartered Accountant Bhaskaraman. However, Karti Chidambaram has denied all allegations and said "if this is not harassment, not a witch hunt, then what is."

Sanjay Raut, Shiv Sena 

In April, the ED attached eight land parcels in Alibaug and a flat in Mumbai's Dadar suburb linked to Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut and his family under the anti-money laundering law. The federal probe agency issued a provisional attachment under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to freeze the land parcels (plots) and flats, they said. The attachment is linked to a money-laundering probe linked to a Rs 1,034 crore worth land 'scam' related to the re-development of a 'chawl' in Mumbai. The agency had also questioned Sanjay Raut's wife Varsha Raut last year in connection with another money laundering case linked to the PMC Bank fraud case and for her purported links with the wife of Pravin Raut, a Maharashtra-based businessman.