Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez has shared a self-note on the Instagram app, hours after her identify appeared in an extortion case. Fernandez’s submit learn, “Expensive me, I deserve all good issues, I am highly effective, I settle for myself, it will all be okay. I am robust, I’ll obtain my targets and goals, I can do it”.
On Wednesday, Enforcement Directorate (ED) filed a cost sheet naming Fernandez as an accused in a multi-crore cash laundering case linked to alleged conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar and others.
The federal probe company filed the contemporary (second supplementary) cost sheet or prosecution criticism on this case on Wednesday earlier than a particular Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA) court docket in Delhi and, in line with sources, the actor has been arraigned in it as an accused.
She is the one accused named within the newest cost sheet, they stated.
The court docket will take up the cost sheet for taking cognisance on August 31.
The 37-year-old actor has been questioned a number of instances by the company on this case, the final being in June.
The actor, a Sri Lanka nationwide, debuted within the Hindi movie business in 2009.
The ED in April provisionally connected ₹7.27 crore funds of the actor underneath the PMLA other than ₹15 lakh in money because the company referred to as these funds “proceeds of crime”.
“Sukesh Chandrashekhar had given varied presents value ₹5.71 crore to Jacqueline Fernandez from the proceeds of crime generated by prison actions together with extortion,” the ED had then stated in a press release.
“Chandrasekhar had put Pinky Irani, his long-time affiliate, and co-accused on this case, to ship the stated presents to her,” the ED had stated.
Along with these presents, it stated, Chandrashekhar additionally gave “funds to the tune of $1,72,913 (about ₹1.3 crore as per present alternate fee) and AUD 26740 (approx. ₹14 lakh) to the shut relations of Fernandez out of the proceeds of crime by way of co-accused Avtar Singh Kochhar, a longtime and well-known worldwide hawala operator.”
The company stated its probe discovered that Chandrashekhar had “delivered money to the tune of ₹15 lakh to a author on behalf of Fernandez as advance for writing a script of her internet sequence mission.”
The ED has alleged that Chandrashekhar used unlawful cash to buy presents for Fernandez which he had extorted by dishonest high-profile folks together with former Fortis Healthcare promoter Shivinder Mohan Singh’s spouse Aditi Singh.
The actor informed the ED, in her assertion recorded in August and October final 12 months, that she “obtained” presents like three designer luggage from Gucci, Chanel, two Gucci outfits for health club put on, a pair of Louis Vuitton sneakers, two pairs of diamond earrings and a bracelet of multi-coloured stones and two Hermes bracelets from Chandrashekhar.
Fernandez additional stated she returned a Mini Cooper automotive that she had equally obtained.
The company present in its probe that Chandrashekhar was in “common contact” with Fernandez from February till he was arrested on August 7 final 12 months by the Delhi Police.
The ED has arrested eight folks on this case until now together with Chandrshekhar, his spouse Leena Maria Paul, Pinky Irani, and has additionally filed two cost sheets earlier than a Delhi court docket.
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