New Delhi: Bollywood actor and dancer Nora Fatehi on Thursday arrived at the office of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to join the investigation in connection with the conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar case.
A Delhi Court on Saturday had sent Chandrasekhar and actress Leena Maria Paul to three days ED remand in connection with Rs200 crore extortion case. They were arrested under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in the extortion racket which was run from a Delhi jail.
Earlier, Tihar Jail authorities investigating the case had revealed that officials inside the Rohini jail helped him to dupe a businessman's wife of Rs200 crore. Chandrasekhar had allegedly extorted Rs200 Crores from a businessman's wife by carrying out an extortion racket from inside the Rohini jail.
The investigation also revealed that the officials would be paid a hefty amount for helping the conman.
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During interrogation, it was also revealed that the jail authorities used to provide him facilities, including mobile, with the help of which he would carry out his frauds.
Chandrasekhar was arrested in 2017 in a case of forgery and lodged in Delhi's Rohini jail. Chandrasekhar, along with two of his associates who worked for him from outside the prison, had extorted the amount from a businessman's wife (Aditi Singh) on the pretext of freeing her husband Shivendra Singh.
The Economic Offence Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police had arrested Shivendra Singh, a former promoter of Ranbaxy, Fortis and Religare Enterprises, along with his brother Malvinder Mohan Singh in October 2019, for alleged financial irregularities. According to sources, Shivendra's wife Aditi Singh had received several calls in the last few months from a man posing as an officer in the Ministry of Home Affairs and Enforcement Directorate. He told Aditi Singh that he would get her husband released and took Rs200Cr from her.
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Aditi on having suspected foul-play informed the entire matter to an officer of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), following which Police Commissioner Rakesh Asthana launched an investigation. During the course of the investigation, the police traced the call to the high profile criminal Sukesh Chandrashekhar and recovered two smartphones from him.
