ED seizes assets worth ₹7cr of actor Jacqueline Fernandez
Hindustan TimesThe Enforcement Directorate on Saturday attached actress Jacqueline Fernandez’s assets worth ₹7.27 crore — terming them as “proceeds of crime”— in the money laundering probe involving conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar. Jacqueline Fernandez “During investigation, it was revealed that Sukesh Chandrasekhar had given various gifts worth ₹5.71 crore to Jacqueline Fernandez from the proceeds of crime generated by criminal activities including extortion. The conman is currently lodged in a Delhi prison.The assets attached under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act include fixed deposits worth ₹7.12 crore and ₹15 lakh cash. Adopting the spoof-call modus operandi, he contacted Aditi Singh, wife of former Ranbaxy promoter Shivinder Mohan Singh, in 2020 posing as Union home secretary, union law secretary, officer from Prime Minister’s Office, etc and extorted more than ₹200 crore from her over a year, on the pretext of contribution to party funds, ED said on Saturday.