New Delhi, Oct. 16 -- The Enforcement Directorate has arrested Congress leader P Chidambaram on Wednesday in the Tihar Jail in connection with its probe in the INX Media money laundering case.

A three-member team of investigators of the Central agency, arrested P Chidambaram under the provision of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). The ED had filed a criminal case under the PMLA in 2017 to probe this deal of alleged irregularities in the grant of FIPB approval to INX Media group.

INX Media got its Foreign Investment Promotion Board approvals in 2007-08 when Chidambaram was Union Finance Minister. The agency will now move into court to seek his fresh custody. It is alleged that this approval was not legal and agencies have ch...