All eyes were freezed at Jacqueline Fernandes after her photo went viral with conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar. Sukesh has gifted Jacqueline very expensive items but he is not linked to just Jacqueline but Nora Fatehi also. Sukesh Chandrashekhar, the conman who is accused of a ₹200 crore money laundering case, is learned to had paid a huge amount of money to his aide Pinky Irani, only to get introduced to Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez. Pinky was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on Friday. ED has conveyed that it was not the first time Conman Chandrshekhar did fraud. He had extorted money in the past from the wife of former Ranbaxy promoter in Delhi. ED officials confronted Pinky Irani and Sukesh Chandrashekhar in Tihar jail, and both were asked the same questions separately and together, news agency ANI reported
Key points
1. The Enforcement Directorate official revealed that Irani introduced Chandrashekhar to Jacqueline Fernandez and in return received a big amount for this work. Officials further said that it was not the first time that Sukesh has paid crores to get his work done, earlier when he was in Rohini jail, he paid prison staff a huge amount in order to allow him to run his extortion racket. To carry on with his extortion racket, he was given an entire barrack in Rohini jail where he freely used his two mobile phones.
2. ED has also found that Chandrashekhar has extorted Aditi Singh, wife of Ex-Ranbaxy promoter Shivinder Mohan Singh, arrested in 2019 in a fund misappropriation case. Sukesh called Aditi from a virtual number using a spoofing app and portrayed himself as a central government official. He promised her husband bail in exchange for that money.
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3. Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandes comes on the radar of the officers as she has received several expensive gifts from the conman. Jacqueline told investigators that Sukesh Chandrashekhar introduced himself as the owner of Sun TV and said he belongs to the family of Jayalalithaa. He also asked her to do some movies for the southern film industries.
4. Sukesh got in touch with Jacqueline this year, through her makeup artist who was called from the spoofing app impersonating a home ministry official. Fernandez received two pairs of diamond earrings, a bracelet made of multi-coloured stones, three designer bags from Gucci and Chanel, two Gucci gym outfits, two Hermes bracelets and Louis Vuitton shoes. Fernandez had also received a Mini Cooper which she later returned.
5. Another Bollywood actress Nora Fatehi has links too with Sukesh, and she was questioned by the ED as well. Fatehi also received gifts from Sukesh and she was given a BMW Car-S series which was registered in the name of Mehboob Khan.
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6. This ED case is based on an FIR filed by Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) against Sukesh Chandrasekhar in an accusation of extorting Aditi Singh.
