Attorney Gautam Khaitan: third court expansion of apprehension, secure to continue till 20 Feb

. The apprehension of OP Khaitan & Carbon monoxide managing partner Gautam Khaitan has actually been extended again today by a special court on demand of the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

He will remained restricted Gautam Khaitan to ED safekeeping to send to their examinations up until at the very least 20 February currently, reported NDTV and others.

Khaitan has actually declared that he is not actually called for by the ED anymore, and also has actually requested bail; the ED is to tell the court why he should not obtain bail by 15 February.

Khaitan had late last month come into the ED's crosshairs and in for jailtime once more over purportedly separate cash laundering charges against him (which his lawyer rubbished in court as generally an additional effort by the investigators to apply the screws).

In his previous incarceration round in 2014, over his alleged participation in the AgustaWestland chopper scam, he had actually ended up in ED guardianship for greater than three months.

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Auxiliary chargesheets in the first instance were filed in July 2018.