New Delhi, August 28 (IANS): The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that specific information had been received from foreign banks which include inputs on former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram's properties abroad. These included house numbers and companies which owned them. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta submitted before a bench headed by Justice R. Banumathi: "As a result, we have issued Letters Rogatory in the matter... well crafted and layering of money laundering was adopted by the accused in this case." The ED refused to share its investigation report with Chidambaram as the chargesheet in the case was yet to be filed and urged the court to look into the report filed in a sealed envelope to decide his anticipatory bail plea. Mehta revealed this information while addressing Chidambaram's argument that the transaction happened before it was made an offence, which points at the retrospective applicability of PMLA law. "We have robust material to show money laundering," argued the ED counsel.
