Jacqueline Fernandez was summoned by the ED on Saturday, the aide of Sukesh Chandrashekhar, who cheated, will be interrogated

bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez The ED has summoned again on Saturday. The development comes a day after the agency arrested an associate of alleged thug Sukesh Chandrashekhar in a money laundering case. Enforcement Directorate will interrogate Jacqueline and Pinky Irani face to face. For those people, it was Pinky who introduced Sukesh to the actress. Pinki Irani was arrested under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). According to officials, Irani was allegedly not cooperating and was therefore taken into custody. The probe agency had earlier arrested Chandrashekhar, his actor wife Leena Maria Paul and two associates.

Meanwhile, the agency also recorded Jacqueline’s statement at its office in Delhi in connection with the extortion case of Rs 200 crore. Fernandez was questioned by the ED at least twice earlier this year in the case, during which he also had an encounter with Chandrashekhar. The agency suspects that he is a “beneficiary” of the proceeds of the crime allegedly generated by Chandrasekhar by extorting and extorting money from some high-profile people.

The actress’s spokesperson had earlier said that she was deposing before the agency as a witness. “Jacqueline Fernandez is being called by the ED to testify as a witness. She has duly recorded her statements and will fully cooperate with the agency in future investigations as well.

“Jacqueline also categorically denies the alleged libelous statements she has made regarding her relationship with the couple involved,” the spokesperson said in a statement in October.

The ED had stopped Fernandez at the Mumbai airport on December 5 and banned him from going abroad. It asked him to stay in the country as he may be required to join the investigation.

The ED has questioned the Sri Lankan-origin actor over several sessions in connection with its probe into the over Rs 200 crore money laundering case against Chandrasekhar and his wife.

The agency had last week filed a chargesheet in the Special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court here and named the couple and six others.

It alleged in the charge sheet that Chandrashekhar had claimed that he had given Fernandez several expensive gifts including some Persian cats and a horse.

The actor is being questioned to substantiate Chandrashekhar’s claims and to find out whether she was the beneficiary of money laundering and to establish her role in this money trap.

Another Bollywood actress-dancer Nora Fatehi has also been questioned by the ED in this case. Chandrashekhar is accused of duping some rich people including Aditi Singh, wife of Shivinder Mohan Singh, former promoter of Fortis Healthcare.

Investigation found that Chandrashekhar, while lodged in Rohini Jail here, allegedly ran an extortion racket using phone spoofing techniques.

The ED had arrested the couple and two co-accused Pradeep Ramanani and Deepak Ramanani in this case.

In August, the agency raided some of Chandrasekhar’s premises and seized a sea-facing bungalow in Chennai for Rs 82.
5 lakh in cash and over a dozen luxury cars.

It had claimed in a statement that Chandrashekhar is a “known thug” and is being investigated by the Delhi Police for alleged criminal conspiracy, cheating and extortion of around Rs 200 crore.

The ED had said, “Chandrasekhar is the mastermind of this fraud. He has been a part of the crime world since the age of 17. Several FIRs are registered against him.”

Despite being in jail, Chandrasekhar did not “stop deceiving” people.

“They (using illegally purchased cell phones in jail) made fake calls to dupe people with the help of technology as the numbers displayed on the phone numbers of the called party belonged to senior government officials.

The ED had claimed, “Speaking to these people (from jail), he claimed to be a government official, who was offering to help at the cost of the people.” Chandrashekhar and Paul were also arrested by the Delhi Police.

The police had recently invoked the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act in the case. The Delhi Police had alleged that Paul and Chandrashekhar, along with others, used hawala routes, forming shell companies to park the money earned from the proceeds of crime.

-With inputs from Atul Bhatia