"This is another attempt in the series of attempts already made by the Union government at the behest of the Vasundhara Raje government to drag my name into manufactured controversies.
"They have thrown in the whole machinery of the state in targeting leaders of the opposition. They are fighting a losing political battle and trying to settle scores by other means now. This nothing but a brazen continuation of malicious prosecution," he told PTI.
The agency took cognisance of the CBI FIR in this regard to register its case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and has named Karthi Chidamabaram and Ravi Krishna, sons of senior Congress leaders and former Union ministers P Chidambaram and Vayalar Ravi respectively.
Pilot alleged that the central probe agency was not serious in probing the cases of Lalit Modi in Rajasthan which were recently in the news.
The former union minister said he has always demanded that the case should be probed by a retired judge of the High Court with a deadline to submit its findings in three months.
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