Palaniappan Chidambaram has been charged for money laundering activity that allegedly benefited his son’s company.
Chidambaram, 73, a political veteran from the main opposition Congress party, was told to submit a bond of 200,000 rupees, not make any public statements on the issue and to surrender his passport. Chidambaram, a wealthy lawyer from a land-owning family from Tamil Nadu state, served twice as finance minister and once as home minister during Manmohan Singh’s 2004-14 tenure as premier.His son Karti Chidambaram and several government officials are also being investigated over their roles in the scandals when Singh’s Congress-led alliance was in power.