CBI seized my confidential Parliament notes: Karti Chidambaram

Karti P Chidambaram said the CBI has wrongfully seized his Parliament notes which were confidential in natureI have written to the Lok Sabha Speaker that there is a gross breach of Parliament privilege My Parliament notes have been seized by the CBI which were confidential in nature he saidHe said this before entering the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI Headquarters here to record his statement in connection with the Chinese visa scamOn Thursday he was grilled for about six hours by the CBI team Karti has called it a tactic to harass him and political vendettaS Bhaskararaman his Chartered Accountant is currently in custodial remand of the CBI Karti will be confronted with him The CBI had told the court that they wanted to confront him with Karti and other accusedThe CBI has also recovered 65000 emails in the matter which will be used as evidenceSources said a sales deed which was recovered during the raid was very important This sales deed was of a property bought in Delhis Jor Bagh and the power of attorney was in the name of Bhaskararaman whereas the property was bought by Karti and his motherKarti Chidambaram will be questioned in this connection alsoAccording to the FIR a Mansa Punjabbased private firm Talwandi Sabo Power Limited took help of a middleman and allegedly paid Rs 50 lakh to get visas issued for Chinese nationals which could help it in completing a project before the deadlineThe Mansa Punjabbased private firm was in the process of establishing a 1980 MW thermal power plant and establishing of plant was outsourced to a Chinese company The project was running behind its schedule In order to avoid penal actions for the delay the said private company was trying to bring more and more Chinese persons professionals for their site at district Mansa Punjab and needed Project Visas over and above the ceiling imposed by the Ministry of Home Affairs said the CBI officialThe official said that for the said purpose the representative of the said private company approached a person based at Chennai through his close associate and thereafter they devised a backdoor way to defeat the purpose of ceiling maximum of Project Visas permissible to the companys plant by granting permission to reuse 263 Project Visas allotted to the said Chinese companys officialsIn pursuance of the same the said representative of the Mansabased private company submitted a letter to the Ministry of Home Affairs seeking approval to reuse the Project Visas allotted to this company which was approved within a month and permission was issued to the companyA bribe of Rs 50 lakh was allegedly demanded by the said private person based at Chennai through his close associate which was paid by the said Mansabased private company The payment of said bribe was routed from the Mansabased private company to said private person of Chennai and his close associate through a Mumbaibased company as payment of false invoice raised for consultancy and out of pocket expenses for the Chinese Visa related works whereas the private company based at Mumbai was never in any kind of work relating to visas rather it was in an entirely different business of industrial knives said the CBI officialIt has been alleged that Kartis father senior Congress leader and former Union Minister P Chidambaram allegedly helped the Chinese get visas by flouting rulesThe CBI officials said that they were looking into the matterThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever