The Appellate Tribunal under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) has dismissed the appeal filed by Karti P. Chidambaram, upholding the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) attachment of his assets and ruling that the delay in filing the prosecution complaint was protected by the Supreme Court’s Covid-19 limitation orders.

Delivering its final order on October 29, the Tribunal comprising Member (Judicial) Rajesh Malhotra and Member (Administrative) Balesh Kumar stated that although the prosecution complaint was filed on June 1, 2020, more than 365 days after the Adjudicating Authority’s confirmation order dated March 29, 2019, the period between March 15, 2020 and February 28, 2022 stood excluded for all judicial and quasi-judicial proceedings owing to pandemic-related restrictions.

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