NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate is hopeful of getting P Chidambaram’s custody to question him on the source of money with which his son Karti purchased a tennis club in Spain, cottages in the UK and several other properties in India and abroad worth over Rs 54 crore.All these properties were purchased allegedly using proceeds of crime generated through bribes received by Karti in the INX Media case, according to the attachment order passed by the ED in October 2018.Chidambaram is co-accused with his son in the INX Media money laundering case and also in the Aircel-Maxis 2G scam case, both being investigated by the ED along with the CBI. The father and son have been chargesheeted and properties attached, including the Rs 16 crore Jor Bagh bungalow in Delhi, where Chidambaram lives. The land and tennis club in Barcelona, Spain, have been estimated at Rs 15 crore.The ED has also attached Karti’s fixed deposits of Rs 9.23 crore in Indian Overseas Bank’s Nungambakkam branch in Chennai and another FD of Rs 90 lakh of Advantage Strategic Consulting Pvt Ltd (ASCPL), linked to him, with DCB Bank in Chennai.The ED claimed to have “identified payments of Rs 3.09 crore by Peter Mukerjea to ASCPL and associated entities controlled by Karti Chidambaram through manipulated debit notes. During investigation, it was admitted that debit notes were raised on the directions of Karti Chidambaram to show some transaction which in fact did not occur”.The ED order further claimed that the probe showed that money received by associated entities was channelled back into ASCPL. “The funds received by ASCPL were invested and ASCPL also purchased shares of Vasan Health Care. A part of these shares were sold at a profit of nearly Rs 41 crore,” it said.Read this story in MarathiRead this story in Bengali