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Homes of India's ex-finance minister, son searched in probe

Associated Press
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    FILE- In this Feb. 17, 2014 file photo, the then Indian Finance Minister P. Chidambaram shows a briefcase containing interim budget for the fiscal year 2014-15 as he arrives at parliament in New Delhi, India. India's top investigating agency has searched the homes of Chidambaram and his son as part of a financial misconduct investigation. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, file) (The Associated Press)

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    Media personnel film outside the house of Karti Chidambaram, son of India's former finance minister P. Chidambaram in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, May 16, 2017. India's top investigating agency searched the homes of former finance minister P. Chidambaram and his son on Tuesday as part of a financial misconduct investigation. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) (The Associated Press)

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    Karti Chidambaram, son of India’s former finance minister P. Chidambaram, gestures to the media waiting outside his house during a raid by the Central Bureau of Investigation in Chennai, India, Tuesday, May 16, 2017. India's top investigating agency searched the homes of former finance minister P. Chidambaram and his son on Tuesday as part of a financial misconduct investigation.(AP Photo) (The Associated Press)

NEW DELHI – India's top investigating agency has searched the homes of former finance minister P. Chidambaram and his son as part of a financial misconduct investigation.

A spokesman for the Central Bureau of Investigation said the searches Tuesday morning involved an investigation into investment clearances given to a company while Chidambaram was in office. The CBI has also raided several other offices across the country.

Chidambaram was finance minister until his Congress party-led government was voted out of power in 2014.

He has denied any wrongdoing and says the investigation is an attempt to silence his criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.