{"id":995237,"date":"2026-02-27T08:45:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995237"},"modified":"2026-02-27T09:03:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:33:05","slug":"ed-gets-persecution-sanction-against-p-chidambaram-in-aircel-maxis-inx-media-cases-what-happens-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/27\/ed-gets-persecution-sanction-against-p-chidambaram-in-aircel-maxis-inx-media-cases-what-happens-next\/","title":{"rendered":"ED gets \u2018persecution sanction\u2019 against P Chidambaram in Aircel-Maxis, INX Media cases \u2013 What happens next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Enforcement Directorate (ED) said on Thursday that it has received prosecution sanction against senior Congress leader and former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram in two separate money laundering cases linked to the Aircel-Maxis and INX Media deals. The agency added that it has submitted the sanction before the court to speed up the trial, according to a report by Hindustan Times. <\/p>\n<p>Both the Aircel-Maxis and INX Media deals took place during the Congress-led UPA government, when Chidambaram was serving as finance minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Enforcement Directorate (ED) said on Thursday that it has received prosecution sanction against senior Congress leader and former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram in two separate money laundering cases linked to the Aircel-Maxis and INX Media deals. The agency added that it has submitted the sanction before the court to speed up the trial, according to a report by Hindustan Times. Both the Aircel-Maxis and INX Media deals took place during the Congress-led UPA government, when Chidambaram was serving as finance minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}