The choppergate case of the Enforcement Directorate against OP Khaitan & Co managing partner Gautam Khaitan hinges around allegedly laundered money transferred to a number of companies and firms he controlled, from where the cash was transferred to him, his wife and two alleged middlemen who stand accused in the scam, reported The Hindu.

Citing the chargesheet, The Hindu wrote:

The ED found that IDS Tunisia had transferred a sizable chunk of the laundered money to Interstellar which was “controlled by Mr. Gautam Khaitan” through ML Administrators, Mauritius.

From Intersteller, two transactions worth 50,000 dollars and 1,00,060 dollars were made to the accounts of Mr. Khaitan and the third transaction of 50,000 dollars to his wife Ritu Khaitan, alleges the ED charge sheet...

The ED has alleged that IDS Tunisia had transferred about Rs.9.2 crore in Euros to Gautam Khaitan through OP Khaitan & Co. And Euromed USA ..

Khaitan remains in jail with the next hearing scheduled for 15 December.