The Enforcement Directorate has summoned former Finance Minister P Chidambaram for questioning in connection with the purchase of 111 aircraft for Air India during Congress-led UPA government’s tenure, sources said on Monday.
According to the sources, the case pertains to the purchase of 111 aircraft — 48 aircraft from Airbus and 68 from Boeing for Rs 70,000 crore in 2007.
Chidambaram, a senior Congress MP in Rajya Sabha, has been asked to appear before the investigators on August 23. He will record his statement in connection to the purchase of 48 aircraft from Airbus.
(With ANI inputs)