ED summons Jacqueline Fernandez on December 8 in Rs 200 crore money laundering case

bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned once again. He has been asked to appear before investigators in Delhi on December 8 in connection with the ongoing probe into the Rs 200 crore money laundering case involving thug Sukesh Chandrashekhar. Earlier, the actress had dropped various summons issued by the agency citing various reasons.

Fernandez has been asked to appear in the ED office by 11 am on December 8 as his interrogation is crucial in the case as a witness in the multi-crore extortion racket allegedly run by Chandrashekhar.

The ED’s move comes a day after Fernandez was deboarded from an Air India flight at 5.25 pm by immigration officials as a look out circular in the Enforcement Directorate case. She was scheduled to take off for Muscat by “AI-985 flight scheduled at 5.5 pm on Sunday”.

The LOC was issued with the direction that Fernandez should not be allowed to leave India. The ED had earlier questioned the actress here in August. Following this, the federal agency recorded Fernandez’s statement during a more than six-hour interrogation here in late August. Another actress Nora Fatehi was also questioned by the ED for the second time on Thursday in the same case. The ED is looking for various people directly or indirectly connected with the case.

Reports suggest that the ED is looking into the possibility that the money was invested abroad and was led by Chandrashekhar, who is an accused in 21 cases. The ED case is based on an FIR lodged by the Economic Offenses Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police against Sukesh Chandrashekhar, who is accused of cheating and extorting Aditi Singh, wife of former Religare Enterprises promoter Shivinder Mohan Singh, who Was arrested in October 2019. A case relating to alleged misappropriation of funds in Religare Finvest Ltd.

Chandrashekhar and his associates allegedly took money from Aditi posing as government officials and promised to get bail for her husband. Chandrashekhar allegedly persuaded Aditi to transfer money by impersonating a central government official on a spoof call while she was lodged in Rohini jail and promised to manage bail for her husband. Chandrashekhar and his actor wife Leena Maria Paul were both arrested by the Delhi Police in September for their alleged role in the cheating case.

Delhi Police has so far arrested 13 people in this case. The ED suspects that Chandrashekhar had extorted money from many people while in jail. In October, ED officials raided Chandrasekhar’s sea-facing bungalow in Chennai and found a fleet of 16 luxury cars worth crores of rupees. At the time of the incident, Chandrashekhar was lodged in Rohini Jail in Delhi and was running an extortion racket from behind the bars.

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In September, the ED had arrested two associates of jailed gangsters against whom the Delhi Police had recently invoked stringent provisions of the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act (MCOCA). Chandrashekhar was allegedly running a fraud and extortion racket with the connivance of jail officials and some associates outside.

-With inputs from Atul Bhatia