Jacqueline Fernandez The ED (Enforcement Directorate) has named Sukesh Chandrashekhar as an accused in the chargesheet in the Rs 200 crore extortion case. ED will file a supplementary charge sheet against the film actress in Delhi’s Patiala House Court today. This chargesheet will be filed under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
This supplementary chargesheet will be done in the recovery case of Suresh Chand Shekhar, lodged in Tihar Jail.
Bollywood actor Jacqueline Fernandez’s assets worth Rs 7.27 crore were recently attached under the Anti-Money Laundering Act in connection with the criminal probe by the Enforcement Directorate against alleged thugs Sukesh Chandrashekhar and others.
The federal agency has issued a provisional order to attach the 36-year-old actor’s fixed deposit of Rs 7.12 crore and Rs 15 lakh in cash under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) as it called these funds “proceeds of crime”. ,
“Sukesh Chandrashekhar had made various gifts of Rs 5.71 crore to Jacqueline Fernandez out of proceeds of crime arising out of criminal activities including extortion.”
“Chandrasekhar had hired his longtime associate and co-accused in this case, Pinky Irani, to give the said gift,” the ED said in a statement.
Apart from these gifts, Chandrashekhar also gave an amount of USD 1,72,913 (approximately Rs 1.3 crore as per current exchange rate) and AUD 26740 (approximately Rs 14 lakh) to close family members of Fernandez. of proceeds of crime through co-accused Avtar Singh Kochhar, an established and renowned international hawala operator.
The agency had said that its investigation found that Chandrashekhar had “paid a cash advance of Rs 15 lakh on behalf of Fernandez to a screenwriter for writing the script of his webseries project.
Fernandez is a Sri Lankan national and has been questioned several times by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in this case. The ED had also barred him from going abroad and directed him to join the probe after he was stopped at the Mumbai airport in December last year before taking an international flight.
The actor made his debut in the Hindi film industry in 2009 and his most recent release was the Hindi film ‘Bachchan Pandey’.
The ED has alleged that Chandrashekhar used illegal money to buy gifts for Fernandez, which he had siphoned off high-profile people including Aditi Singh, wife of Shivinder Mohan Singh, a former Fortis Healthcare promoter. He is accused of posing as Union Home Secretary and Law Secretary over phone to Aditi Singh and her sister.
The actor, in his statement recorded in August and October last year, told ED that he received gifts like Gucci, three designer bags from Chanel, two Gucci outfits for gym wear, one pair of Louis Vuitton shoes, two pairs of diamonds. Chandrasekhar earrings and a bracelet of multicolored stones and two Hermes bracelets. Fernandez further said that he returned a Mini Cooper car which he had found similarly.
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The agency, in its investigation, found that Chandrashekhar was in “regular contact” with Fernandez from February until he was arrested (by Delhi Police) on August 7 last year.
The ED has so far arrested several people including Chandrashekhar, his wife Leena Maria Paul, Pinky Irani and others in the case and also filed two charge sheets before a Delhi court.
— With PTI inputs
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