Jacqueline Fernandez “intentionally opted to overlook conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar’s criminal background,” according to the charge sheet brought by the Enforcement Directorate against Jacqueline Fernandez, and “continued to engage in financial transactions with him.” The charge sheet claims that Jacqueline’s relationship with her family and friends has brought her financial gain.
A 200 crores extortion case involving Sukesh Chandrasekhar is now being investigated while he is incarcerated. The ED has also named Jacqueline, who was rumoured to be dating him, as an accused party in the case.
The ED also came to the conclusion that “the attraction of money assured that the criminal history of the person she was engaging with did not matter,” according to the news agency ANI. “Investigation so far has revealed that the accused actor is directly or indirectly involved in the proceeds of crime and acquired, possessed & used part proceeds of crime – valuable gifts for herself & her family members in India & abroad and thereby committed an offence of money laundering u/s 3 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, which is punishable u/s 4 of PMLA, 2002,” the charge sheet continued.
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Sukesh was accused by the ED of using money extorted from prominent individuals, including former Fortis Healthcare promoter Shivinder Mohan Singh’s wife Aditi Singh, to buy gifts for Jacqueline. Additionally, the agency claims that the actress “had continuously changed her opinion” regarding the gifts she received from Sukesh in the chargesheet. She did disclose some information, according to the ED, but she still disputes “some assets purchased by Sukesh for her and the inquiry on that aspect is ongoing.”
Her relationship with Sukesh is also taken into account in the chargesheet, demonstrating that she “committed the offence of money laundering as defined under section 3 of PMLA for knowing using and holding the profits of crime.”
Jacqueline received a summons earlier in the day from the Patiala House Court in Delhi, ordering her to appear before the court on September 26. In the extortion case against Sukesh Chandrashekar, the ED submitted a supplemental charge sheet on August 17 that named Jacqueline as a defendant.
The ED has called Jacqueline up and questioned her multiple times over the case. She has always cooperated with the investigation agencies and turned up to all summonses thus far, according to attorney Prashant Patil, who appeared on the actor’s behalf. To the best of her ability, she has provided the ED with all the information, he stated.
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In addition to the 15 lakh dollars in cash, the ED temporarily attached the actor’s finances under the PMLA in April because it deemed them to be “proceeds of crime.” The actor argued that her fixed deposits were made with her own money, not Sukesh’s gifts, in her response to the court through her legal team.
Though Jacqueline did share a cryptic social media post after being named an accused in the case, she has not commented on the matter in public yet. Her social media post from August 17 was addressed to ‘dear me’, and read ‘it’ll all be okay’.
