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A lot of answers here, many seeming to buy into the idea of this as, at very least suspicious, and possibly the “smoking gun” everyone has been waiting for. But it might be worth pulling out some facts.This was a 90-second video without context, of a process most people are not familiar with, viewed through the lens of confirmation bias (people want to see fraud), and revealed with the flourish and drama that would make PT Barnum proud. But it hasn’t been taken to court. And it won’t be. Because it will lose. Why? Because, as Guiliani and his team already know, those who DO know the process and context have already said they see nothing out of the ordinary here.They weren’t suitcases, they were the same ballot containers used throughout the facility and elsewhere in the video. Use of the word “suitcase" (which implies something shady and suspicious) when they're quite clearly not suitcases, should ring alarm bells.The media and poll watchers weren’t “told to leave”. They chose to leave at the same time as the ‘cutters’ (who’s job it was open the envelopes) under the assumption that work was done for the night. The counters were also planning to leave but were later instructed not to by Rick Barron. At least two election officials returned and observed the continuing count after a short break. [Note for transparency: there are elements of this part of the official narrative which are legitimately disputed and there was undoubtedly some confusion here. See my edit at the bottom of the answer]The boxes weren’t “hidden under the table”. According to the officials, the bins were initially empty, ballots were opened on the table in full view of monitors by the cutters, then placed in the bins to be counted in batch later. When the counters thought they were done for the night, they began to “secure the area” - the bins were closed, sealed, and then stowed at around 10.01 pm - again, observers and media were still in the room at this point.When Rick Barron heard the counters were planning on stopping for the night, he instructed them to keep going (see below). This meant that they had to pull the sealed boxes back out from under the tables where they had been stowed in order to be unsealed and processed.The full Chain of Custody of the table (which was placed there at 8.22am, on camera, with nothing underneath) and the boxes in question can be seen for those who choose to watch the full 14-hour security footage and not a 90-second clip. [Spoiler Alert: Guiliani HAS watched it, see below]Although they’re entitled to be there, there is nothing in the State rules to say that party observers have to be present during the counting.These facts come from numerous election officials. Notably, Gabriel Sterling, the voting system implementation manager (and a Republican)…The 90 second video of election workers at State Farm arena, purporting to show fraud was watched in its entirety (hours) by @GaSecofState investigators. Shows normal ballot processing. Here is the fact check on it. https://t.co/HVJsvDjDvi— Gabriel Sterling (@GabrielSterling) December 4, 2020Also, Fulton elections director Rick Barron, who said:“What the video shows is that they have pulled out plastic bins from underneath the desks. It was normal processing that occurred there.”On finishing for the night:“I told them not to do that. At about 11:15 [p.m.] they were fully scanning again, and once they were scanning, Carter Jones, the State Election Board monitor, he told me 11:42 or 11:52 [p.m.] that he arrived.”So even if the scanning was being done fraudulently (which no officials believe was the case), they had around 30–35 minutes at most before the independent monitor turned up to observe, and the implication would therefore be that Rick Barron was “in on it”, having apparently orchestrated the whole charade about them continuing to count after stopping.Indeed, this is the phone call in which Barron instructs the counters to keep counting after he’d been harassed by the media for stopping. Notice all the “suitcases” in the background.And Frances Watson The chief investigator of the Georgia Secretary of State, whose signed statement on this can be read here. (see point 7 in the images):Georgia Secretary of State’s Chief Investigator Frances Watson: “Our investigation & review of the entire security footage revealed that there were no mystery ballots brought in from an unknown location & hidden under tables as has been reported by some.”https://t.co/vBy7XCPIeE pic.twitter.com/i3euD2zA4s— JERRY DUNLEAVY (@JerryDunleavy) December 7, 2020Now, if you ARE genuinely just interested in free and fair elections, and you’re not just clinging on to any shred of hope that Trump’s team might overturn the election, then this story SHOULD trouble you. Not because it shows systemic voter fraud in Georgia. But because it shows a borderline seditious attempt to use misinformation to undermine an election.Rudy Guiliani and his team watched the full video. They were shown the Chain of Custody of the “suitcases” [hint: not suitcases] and were briefed by State investigators regarding the counting process and that there was nothing improper in the video. Everything in the post above… they know. Nevertheless, they took 90 seconds of the video, out of context, and absent of the explanations they were given, and they spun a fantastical tale to sow mistrust and doubt about the process to further their narrative that “the election was rigged”. They knew it would never stand up in court, and that they’d be risking disbarment by even trying. But as a bit of viral misinformation which perpetuates the ‘mountain of evidence’ myth, it’s worked an absolute treat, as many of the other answers to this question indicates.I just spent 2 hours going through State Farm surveillance video with @GabrielSterling & state investigators. We watched chain of custody of the table & ballot boxes in question - from 8am until midnight. The boxes were packed & sealed with observers in room - nothing improper pic.twitter.com/gKxS2GwD0Z— Justin Gray (@JustinGrayWSB) December 4, 2020[The video of the interaction in this Tweet can be seen here: Georgia election officials show frame-by-frame what happened in Fulton surveillance video]********EDIT:It’s already a long answer, so feel free to skip this bit. But I wanted to touch upon some of the counterarguments made in the comments below.“The Water Leak” - Some of the conspiracy theories conflate news of a water leak in the State Farm Arena with the call end to counting, suggesting the former was used as a cover story to get people out. This is false. The two events were 17 hours apart, the leak was fixed quickly and had no influence on the counting. There’s no evidence this was mentioned as a reason for calling time on the counting.“The vote dump” - People call into question the spike in Biden votes during this period. Hands up if you’d heard a million times in the days and weeks running up to the election that mail-in votes would favour the democrats? With Trump actively discouraging mail-in voting and Biden doing the opposite it was expected. So when you’re counting mail-in ballots in an urban, Democrat-leaning district… how do you think it’s going to go?“Georgia’s Rejection Rate for Mail-in Ballots dropped from 4% to near zero” - This one came from Trump, the implication being that counters were either allowing through favourable suspicious ballots, or the boxes had been stuffed with ‘clean’ ballots. While the rejection rates for 2020 have not yet been released, the 4% figure from previous elections is a lie.[1]“The Sworn Affidavits from Republican Poll Watchers” - Two comments below this raise this point, one saying the affidavits confirm the official story, the other saying they contradict it. The truth is that they broadly support the official narrative in that the counting had supposedly stopped for the night, with the only contentious part around whether they were instructed to leave, or - as some other witnesses suggested - they drew their own conclusions and left because things appeared to have wound down and stopped. Indeed, the counters themselves believed they were done for the night at this point which would have added the general sense that “we’re done for now”. The fact the poll watchers weren’t told the counting was restarting after Barron’s phone call appears to be true, though it isn’t clear who was where at this point. They may have already left. Nevertheless, this is undoubtedly an oversight, although the independent election monitor confirmed he was told and did return. Local NBC News affiliate WXIA-TV confirmed their media reps had left the arena and weren’t aware that counting had restarted. As I have already pointed out though, there’s no legal requirement for partisan poll watchers to be present. Whether you think this was just a communications oversight or something nefarious will probably depend on your political persuasion, but the investigators erred towards the former. And, as the rest of this answer points out, even if it was nefarious, they gained nothing from it.“The Number of Ballots Counted Unmonitored” - Some commenters are suggesting that whether it was intentionally engineered this way or not, the counters were given a period of time in which there was no-one watching them (ignoring the CCTV). Some have suggested this could have equalled “tens or even hundreds of thousands” of ballots. It was actually 9,750 during the additional 2 hours of counting. And an independent monitor turned up after 35 minutes, meaning the number of actual unmonitored counted ballots was, at most, a few thousand.“The Georgia ‘Apparatus’ WOULD say that the video showed nothing, wouldn’t they(!)” - The implication is that several entirely unrelated groups, from Fulton County election board, the independent election monitors, through to the Georgia Secretary of State, her inspectors, and other Georgian election officials are all “in on it” and somehow conspired to engineer and then cover-up an elaborate plot to get people out of the room so that counters could count, in full view of CCTV, an extra 10,000 ballots to swing their state to the Democrats. Ignoring, of course, that Georgia is a Republican-controlled state, and many of those individuals are card-carrying Republicans.“It took them a month to release the CCTV!” - It didn’t. They haven’t released the CCTV to the public, nor is there any reason they would. Investigators has access to the footage immediately. The video turned up online after a month because the 90-second clip was created and released, Tweeted out by “Team Trump” and retweeted by Trump himself. By this point, investigators had already analysed and dismissed the full video.Fact Check: Video From Georgia Does NOT Show Suitcases Filled With Ballots Suspiciously Pulled From Under A Table; Poll Watchers Were NOT Told To Leave | Lead StoriesPolitiFact - No, Georgia election workers didn’t kick out observers and illegally count ‘suitcases’ of ballotsFact Checking Rudy Giuliani's Grandiose Georgia Election Fraud ClaimDid Georgia Poll Workers Hide 'Suitcases' of Ballots From Republican Observers?Footnotes[1] Fact check: Georgia rejected ballots did not go from 4% to “almost zero” in 2020

Uh, yeah.This was explained minutes after it aired.(Conspiracy theories are like whack-a-mole…updated with more debunking and fact checking sources and quotes from a several other officials)Election officials disprove Trump’s viral suitcases of ballots ‘smoking gun’ videoMr Sterling was one of two Republican election officials in Georgia who denied the Trump campaign’s claims.Mr Sterling said the suitcases were moved across a room as “normal procedure”, and that there was nothing “odd” about the process, because poll workers were tasked with scanning the ballots once observers and vote counters had left the State Farm Arena.“If you look at the videotape, the work you see is the work you would expect, which is you take the sealed suitcase, you place the ballots on the scanner in manageable batches and you scan them,” Mr Sterling said.Frances Watson, the chief investigator for Georgia’s secretary of state, told Lead Stories that Republican and Trump campaign observers were not told to leave, and that the ballots scanned in the surveillance video had already been counted, in contrast to Mr Giuliani and Ms Pick’s assertions.“Nobody told them to stay. Nobody told them to leave. Nobody gave them any advice on what they should do,” she said. “And it was still open for them or the public to come back in to view at whatever time they wanted to, as long as they were still working.”Ms Watson added that the ballots put through the scanners amounted to around 10,000, which was less than Joe Biden’s 12,670 vote margin over Mr Trump in the state.So, to be clear, we have a Republican Election official and the Republican Chief Investigator for the Republican Georgian Secretary of State testifying that Giuliani is full of shit and this is a case of propaganda super-spreaders distributing misinformation about something that they could have learned about if they attended the proper free training sessions or spoke with someone who knew what they’re talking about.Updated: Some of this was reported in a breaking news story on ABC:NEW: The election department sent the ballot counters at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta home at 10:30 p.m., Regina Waller, the Fulton County public affairs manager for elections, tells ABC News. https://t.co/HgCtcXEka3— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) November 4, 2020(the actual article is here, the link in the tweet goes to a feed: Pipe bursts in Atlanta arena causing 4-hour delay in processing ballots). There’s apparently mass confusion about this event, where Regina Waller, Public Affairs manager for the elections said they “sent home ballot counters at 10:30”. When this was announced the media pitched a fit because they wanted results. Waller disputes this narrative and says that she stated that some would be sent home while others would be leaving at 10:30.[1][1][1][1]When news media interviewed interviewed Rich Barron, the actual Fulton County elections director, he had caved to political and media pressure and kept all but but 5 to count new batches that had been opened by the cutters who were now leaving. The GOP observers misunderstood what occurred and thought they were done.There was a discrepancy about when workers were sent home on Election Night to stop processing absentee-by-mail ballots. The county said it would stop at 10:30 p.m.There was backlash internally and externally, but Barron said he sent almost all of his staff, who’d worked long hours and at a point were becoming “counter-productive.” So GOP observers thought all was done for the night.But five county workers stayed to do final processing of ballots until 1 a.m., under the supervision of a state observer.Fulton commissioner Liz Hausmann, a Republican, told Barron on Wednesday that “the Georgia GOP does not think we treated them fairly.”“We can’t even have the appearance that we don’t want them to (observe),” she said.Barron said he was aware of the mistake and that the GOP was certainly welcome to observe.More from leadstories:Frances Watson, chief investigator for the secretary of state, was quoted as saying the supposedly suspicious containers under the banquet room’s table were not suitcases, but rather standard containers for transporting ballots.“It was an empty bin and the ballots from it were actually out on the table when the media were still there, and then it was placed back into the box when the media were still there and placed next to the table,” Watson said.Sterling also told Lead Stories: “If you look at the video tape, the work you see is the work you would expect, which is you take the sealed suitcase looking things in, you place the ballots on the scanner in manageable batches and you scan them.”More on "being told to leave":Before certifying Fulton County’s voter tallies on Dec. 4, which was typically a mundane step in U.S. presidential elections before electors solidify the outcome of the popular vote through the Electoral College, the county’s election director, Rick Barron, said no one told anyone (including the observers and reporters) to leave the banquet room on the night of Nov. 3, according to Atlanta’s 11Alive. Rather, some poll workers had finished their shifts, and the staff was considering ceasing operations.“I told them not to do that,” Barron said, per the news outlet. “At about 11:15 [p.m.] they were fully scanning again, and once they were scanning, Carter Jones, the State Election Board monitor, he told me 11:42 or 11:52 [p.m.] that he arrived.”In other words, Barron alleged that a nonpartisan, state-designated monitor was present when poll workers were scanning ballots just before and after midnight. And after that, he said, an investigator with the secretary of state’s office also monitored the ballot scanning. Barron said, per Atlanta 11Alive:"What the video shows is that they have pulled out plastic bins from underneath the desks, those are bins that they keep under their desks near the scanners. They will cut those seals that are on those, open those up and pull the ballots out.They were still in the process of cleaning so they hadn’t sealed those ballot boxes up, so they were able to just start right back up, normal processing that occurred there."What we have are miscommunications from exhausted people who didn’t ask questions when they should have and now are just asking questions to sow doubt.Additionally, there was a story circulating right wing agitprop sites that there were 2 Republican poll watchers that signed affidavits claiming that a “black lady with blonde braids” told them to leave. This is not true. These two gave sworn affidavits that someone yelled that it was time to go to the “cutters”, so they did too, and no one gave them any instructions either way.[2][2][2][2]Their affidavits filed in support of President Donald Trump's lawsuit aimed at overturning Joe Biden's Georgia win both said a supervisor "yelled" to the election workers who were prepping ballots for scanning to "stop working" and return the next morning. The observers said they eventually followed those workers out, but they never claimed they were told to go, prevented from staying, or banned from returning. Their description of events closely match what the chief investigator for the secretary of state told Lead Stories.Further:Harrison said he and Branton " were then told to return to the Fulton County Board of Elections Warehouse," but the affidavit does not say who gave that instruction. There is no indication it was an election official involved in the vote count.Harrison and Branton both said the learned later from a news crew that the vote counting was continuing. Branton said she returned to the State Farm Arena and was told the counting had "just finished." She gave no indication that she was prevented from returning.The “briefcases” were actually secure storage for the ballots.This was normal operations.Moreover, scanning a ballot twice will not count it twice.Georgia has instituted a new voting system that uses ballot-marking devices. This system utilizes touchscreen voting machines that print your selections on a piece of paper along with a QR code that is then scanned and stored. So state officials say Georgia can audit those votes to ensure things are as they should be.“Because we now have that verifiable paper ballot, for the first time in 18 years, we're gonna have something to count. So instead of just pressing a button and getting the same answer,” Raffensperger said, “we'll be counting every single piece of paper, every single ballot and every single lawfully cast legal ballot.”[3][3][3][3]To put it simply:The machine scans the ballot and checks if it’s readableIf it doesn’t have a QR code it adds a unique QR code to the ballotIt then counts where the person marked the ballotIt stores the ballot count in a unique database table that is matched to the QR code ID.If you scan the ballot again, it can look up the QR code and verify that that ballot has been counted. If it’s already been counted once, it will not be counted again!This process enables:Machine recount with the existing database…if one ballot had an issue and didn’t get counted in a pile, it might get picked up a second time.Machine recount with a fresh database…to compare results for auditing purposesHand recount, to make sure the machines were calibrated properlyIf people took more interest in their communities and government than once a year trolling YouTube for anything mundane they can interpret as a conspiracy maybe we'd be a more unified country. Now we have Republicans accusing Republicans of sabotaging the election.From the comments we have stuff like this from people “just asking questions”:In other words, he thinks that if McConnell hadn’t disrespected the institutions of the Constitution, by creating the McConnell Doctrine and then hypocritically heel-faced turned years later that Scalia would have been a “Republican In Name Only” — a “Fake Conservative” despite being the most right wing justice the court has had in modern history.These are the types of people that make me concerned for the future, the ultra-tribalists that would turn their back on a person the second they waver in their devotion to the “R”. Repeatedly he claims that a “debunking” needs to be more than numerous officials (who are members of the party that lost the election) explaining the process and telling you that there’s nothing untowards happening. People like that don’t know how to answer questions, only ask them. Who repeatedly just ask questions, but never believe the answer.Politics for these people have become sports — worse than sports, it’s like Survivor, a game show where you’d kill your own just to win.I just finished watching a great video that has this quote:“I'm doubtful you ever really can debunk conspiracy theories. However many explanations that can be offered to demystify evidence that is presented so mysteriously and without context or even the most basic knowledge of surrounding issues, the art of the conspiracy theorist lies in always finding a next 'event' or 'phenomenon' the skeptic must further explain. Even if the skeptic manages to shoot through 100s of the conspiracy theorists 'pieces of evidence' the conspiracy theorist can still stand upon his pile of turd and still declare that the fact the skeptic is trying to obliterate his turd is further evidence of the conspiracy.”Even Fox News Reporters aren’t buying this: Fox News reporter denies Georgia election fraud claims made by Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity.But in the end, none of this mattered.They completed three recounts, a couple machine and one completely by hand and Biden ended up losing about 900 votes in the process, still winning the state by just less than 12,000 votes.Recount affirms Joe Biden won GeorgiaMore details: Did Georgia Poll Workers Hide 'Suitcases' of Ballots From Republican Observers?And: Video Doesn't Show 'Suitcases' of Illegal Ballots in GeorgiaMore: Opinion | Bogus ‘suitcase’ story rolls away from Fox News — The Washington PostHere’s some Rumor debunking from Trump’s Executive branch’s commission on election security: Rumor Control | CISAFootnotes[1] Questions persist over early dismissal of Atlanta poll workers, alleged secret ballot counting[1] Questions persist over early dismissal of Atlanta poll workers, alleged secret ballot counting[1] Questions persist over early dismissal of Atlanta poll workers, alleged secret ballot counting[1] Questions persist over early dismissal of Atlanta poll workers, alleged secret ballot counting[2] Fact Check: GOP Observers Did NOT Swear In Affidavits They Were Told To Leave Fulton County, Georgia, Vote Count Center On Election Night | Lead Stories[2] Fact Check: GOP Observers Did NOT Swear In Affidavits They Were Told To Leave Fulton County, Georgia, Vote Count Center On Election Night | Lead Stories[2] Fact Check: GOP Observers Did NOT Swear In Affidavits They Were Told To Leave Fulton County, Georgia, Vote Count Center On Election Night | Lead Stories[2] Fact Check: GOP Observers Did NOT Swear In Affidavits They Were Told To Leave Fulton County, Georgia, Vote Count Center On Election Night | Lead Stories[3] Battleground: Ballot Box | Why Georgia's Audit Is Re-Counting 5 Million Ballots By Hand[3] Battleground: Ballot Box | Why Georgia's Audit Is Re-Counting 5 Million Ballots By Hand[3] Battleground: Ballot Box | Why Georgia's Audit Is Re-Counting 5 Million Ballots By Hand[3] Battleground: Ballot Box | Why Georgia's Audit Is Re-Counting 5 Million Ballots By Hand

The Income Tax’s Chennai Investigation Unit’s report having more than 200 pages about former Finance Minister P Chidambaram’s family and especially son Karti and his companies huge assets in more than 14 countries are now out in the public domain. Recently some portion of this sensitive report was exposed in public by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy in a press conference. Many media houses whose owners are friendly and in collusion with Chidambaram tried to black out the news.In the interest of public, we are producing the entire data of assets and bank accounts found in the joint raid of Income Tax and Enforcement Directorate.21 foreign bank accounts by Karti and his companies in Metro Bank in UK, 4 accounts in OCBC in Singapore in the name of Advantage Strategic Consulting Pte Ltd, the controversial company caught in kickbacks in Aircel-Maxis scam, 2 banks in Spain namely Sabadell Atlantico, La Caxia Bank, HSBC UK, Barclays Bank in Monaco, Marseille BNP Paribas in France, UBS in Switzerland etc.The Income Tax which seized hard disks from Karti’s companies found that P Chidambaram, wife Nalini Chidambaram, son Karti and his wife Srinidhi jointly purchased a property and a big palatial house in Cambridge in UK. As per the Income tax seized documents, the property bought by Chidambaram and family is: 5, Holben Close, Cambridge, CB237AQ. This huge property and home was purchased from Edmund Suley Holt and Heather Holt and the money was transacted from Karti’s personal account in London’s Metro Bank account number: 16714313. Chidambaram never declared this property in any of his mandatory affidavits as Member of Parliament (MP) or Minister. Chidambaram in his affidavit to Rajya Sabha in May 2016 declared only 1/3rd portion of the property as wife Nalini’s property. He also under-invoiced the value of this property of his wife’s share at just Rs.1.55 crores, while UK’s real estate websites estimate this property in Cambridge to be worth more than Rs.85 crores.Karti’s Advantage Strategic Consulting Private Limited ‘s Singapore company’s bank accounts to buy properties in UK like purchase of 88 acres farm house known as Surridge Farm in Somerset, UK. The land value shown in the registry is one million pounds.Another property in Cambridge is at Ceres, 29, Meade House at Cambridge.Chidambaram’s son Karti has built a massive empire in different parts of the world by making investments in real estate and engaging in other business activities in London, Dubai, South Africa, Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, British Virgin Island, France, USA, Switzerland, Greece and Spain. Most of the purchases happened during the period 2006 to 2014 when Chidambaram was Finance Minister and Home Minister. The probe agencies estimate these assets across the world are expected to be more than Three Billion Dollars.Karti’s Singapore-based firm had acquired majority shares of a big resort in Sri Lanka, known as Lanka Fortune Residencies. This company owns the prestigious resorts ‘The Waterfront’, ‘Weligama Bay Resort’ and Emerald Bay Hotel.Karti’s Singapore firm routed money via Dubai to acquire three farms and vineyards in South Africa, identified as Rowey Farm in Grabouw, Cape Orchards and Vineyards Private Limited, and Zandvliet Enterprises, a wine and stud farm in Ashton.The Dubai-based Desert Dunes Properties Ltd has also investment in Karti’s Singapore-based company Advantage. The probes have unearthed a money trail of 1.7 million Singapore Dollars between these firms. Another Dubai-based company, Pearl Dubai FX LLC, also had financial transaction with Advantage. This shows that Karti linked firms have offices and assets in UAE also.The Advantage’s Ceres, 29, Meade House had entered into joint ventures with the Philippines-based companies to obtain a franchise team of International Premier Tennis League (Asia). The Philippine firms, which were engaged in joint ventures with the Karti-controlled company, are SM Arena Complex Corporation, Sports Entertainment Events Management Inc.The Advantage had also had financial transactions with another real estate company in Singapore known as Real Beyond Pte. Ltd. having three subsidiaries in Malaysia. The investigation has unearthed that these transactions led to 16 land purchases in Thailand.The Advantage’s Singapore unit has set up a firm in British Virgin Island (BVI), namely Somerset Surridge Ltd. Advantage also invested 400,000 Singapore dollars in another BVI firm known as Full Innovations Ltd. It also has financial dealing with Geben Trading Limited in BVI and offices in Switzerland. This firm’s major transactions were through the famous Swiss Bank, namely UBS. The investigators got proofs of transactions in Dollars and Euro. The Advantage also has transaction of five million Singapore dollars with another firm in Singapore, namely Unison Global Investment Ltd.The Karti-controlled company in Singapore entered into joint ventures with Gravitas Investments, Match Point International Tennis Events to buy a franchise Tennis team called ‘Manila Mavericks’. This deal was worth of 12 million US dollars and the money was paid in 10 installments.Karti’s Singapore company also acquired a residential flat in Malaysia worth 1.9 million Malaysian Ringgits from a firm called Peninsular Smart. The probe team also found some agreement papers which shows that the Advantage holds franchisees of Café’ Coffee Day in some locations in Malaysia. The investigators have found several transactions to Karti’s Singapore firm with Malaysian companies. Malaysia is the head quarters of telecom giant Maxis which acquired Aircel in 2006. The IT and ED officers seized payment details amounting to more than Rs.30 crore in foreign currencies.The Advantage in Singapore also opened a subsidiary firm in Barcelona in Spain known as Advantage Estrategia Esportiva SLU in August 2012. This is a sports academy having four acres with seven tennis courts in Spain.Karti-linked Singapore firm has also one million US dollar investment in a company in France known as Pampelonn Organisation. The Advantage also has transactions with a Greek firm known as Pisani John Sakellarios in Athens.Karti’s firm Advantage Strategic Consulting Private Limited (ASCPL) had transactions with Aircel Televenutres, DCB Client, Diageo Scotland Limited, Katra Group, Sri Lanka Export Development Board, Unifi Wealth Management Ltd, VST Tillers Tractors, Carlton Trading Company, Claris Life Sciences’, ITC Centre, Best Land Realty Limited, Essar Steel Limited, Gokul Builders and Estates, S Kumar, INX Media, Reflections, Thiagarajar Mills Private Limited, Saksoft, EL Forge Limited.The Income Tax which seized hard disks from Karti’s companies also found that Karti used to get huge money as kickbacks in several Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) deals pending with father former Finance Minister P Chidambaram.On Sept 22, 2008, ASCPL received Rs.35 Lakh from INX Media (now known as News X TV Channel), which applied for FIPB clearance of 220 million dollar during the period. Same day another Rs.60 Lakh was paid from INX Media to Northstar Software Solutions Pvt Ltd. Major shares of this Northstar Software Solutions Pvt Ltd controlled by C B N Reddy, who is a Benami and Director of ASCPL and its Singapore subsidiary also. On Sept 24, 2008 another tranche of 20,000 Dollars were paid to ASCPL’s Singapore subsidiary by INX Media.On Sept 26, 2008, ASCPL had a money transaction of 50,000 dollars with Geben Trading Limited in Athens in Greece. This company’s address is 4 Zaf.Matsa Street, 14564 Athens, Greence and incorporated in British Virgin Islands (BVI). The money transactions of ASCPL also show to Geben Trading’s bank account in UBS, Geneva in Switzerland. The emails of banking transaction details were marked to Karti also and documents shows about a business takeover of healthcare and rehabilitation centers in Greece. All these transactions happened during the INX Media’s Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) approvals for 220 million dollar were pending with Karti’s father Finance Minister P Chidambaram. In short, the murder accused Peter and Indrani Mukherjea who sold their INX Media paid around 9 crores rupees to Karti linked firms for FIPB clearance.In August 2008, Karti’s Singapore company got 60 lakh shares in the media firm Network 18’s London based company Artevea Digital UK This deal happened when Network 18 applied for a series of FIPB clearances, when Chidambaram was the Finance Minister. This led to around 25 crores kickback for processing the FIPB clearance.The documents unearthed by Income Tax shows that ASCPL received money from many companies when their FDI investment files were with FIPB and Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) during Chidambaram’s tenure as Finance Minister. The companies which transferred money to Karti’s ASCPL are Claris Life Sciences, Diageo Scotland Limited which acquired fugitive Vijay Mallya’s UB Spirits, Katra Group, Arcelor Mittal linked Saksoft, Reflections belong to Spark Capital Advisory Private Limited. As per the Income Tax Analysis Report, all these deals involve around Rs. 500 crores kickback to Karti linked companies for necessary FIPB and CCEA clearances during Chidambaram’s period in Finance Ministry.The documents seized from the raid also show that ASCPL received money from Best Land Realty, when the company got a Rs.304 crore loan from Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) Banks.In a bizarre incident, the British company Diageo Scotland Limited which acquired fugitive Vijay Mallya’s UB Spirits even paid 15,000 dollars as Service Charges to Karti’s ASCPL for fixing appointments with then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Finance Minister Chidambaram. Diageo’s emails thank Karti for fixing appointment of company owner Lord Blyth with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Finance Minister Chidambaram. The thanking email also attached the 15,000 dollar pay out receipt as Service Charges for fixing appointments with PM and FM. This is a clear case of abuse of power initiating case under Prevention of Corruption Act.Another clear case of favoritism to son’s company by abusing power by Chidambaram is – In September 2006, Russia’s National Industrial Bank (Nazprom) appoints Karti’s ASCPL as Business Consultant for their Joint Venture with Indian Overseas Bank. The documents seized by Income Tax included ASCPL’s agreement with Russian Bank Nazprom and Nazprom’s series of communications with IOB including the meetings in Chennai. The emails show that in each transactions with the Russian bank and PSU IOB, Karti’s ASCPL minted money in the form of consultancy. The Russian Bank’s agreement says Karti’s ASCPL’s Singapore subsidiary will get 5% as commission with all transactions with Indian Overseas Bank, apart from the initial 25,000 dollar processing fee.This is a clear case of abuse of power by Finance Minister Chidambaram to get a cut for son Karti’s company for each money transfer between PSU Bank IOB and Russian Bank Nazprom.Karti’s ASCPL also received huge money from a South African company Nicholas Stynes Associates Limited. This South African company was engaged in providing security to IPL Cricket and the money transactions with Karti’s company happened when Chidambaram was Home Minister.The documents also show that ASCPL got huge money as commission from Allianze Securities for sale of NABARD Bonds when Chidambaram was Finance Minister.The money was paid to Finance Minister Chidambaram from Karti’s Meltrack Ltd in relation to sale of shares and selling of huge tract of land in Mysore to VST Tillers & Tractors Limited. The land was mortgaged to Union Bank of India. P Chidambaram was shown as unsecured creditor to Meltrack Limited.A very interesting thing in all Karti companies including ASCPL – there are five common Directors like C B N Reddy, Bhaskar Raman, Mohanan Rajesh, Ravi Viswanathan and V Padma. The Income Tax found that all these five persons have entered into a curious WILL that they owe all properties and assets to Karti or his daughter Aditi in consideration of respect and love to P Chidambaram! This shows that these five persons are nothing but Benamis of Karti and P Chidambaram.*This is arguably one of the largest catch of black money in India from A Politician’s Family.