New Delhi: Money laundering is an offence against "society and nation", the ED told the Supreme Court on Thursday and said it needed custodial interrogation of former finance minister P Chidambaram to unearth the larger conspiracy in the INX Media case under PMLA. The SC said it will pronounce on September 5 the order in the case.

The Enforcement Directorate told the SC that it cannot show the material collected during the probe to Chidambaram at this stage as the prrof related to money trail of layers of money might be erased.