A Delhi court on Saturday sent conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar and his wife, South Indian actor Leena Maria Paul, to the custody of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) till October 23 in the money-laundering case of duping Rs 200 crore from the wife of a prominent Delhi businessman.
The ED is probing allegations of money laundering against the two, who were recently arrested for duping the wife of a city-based industrialist. Paul was arrested on September 5 for helping Chandrashekhar, who is accused of allegedly taking the money from former Fortis Healthcare promoter Shivinder Singh’s wife Aditi Singh.
The case was filed based on an FIR lodged by the Delhi Police’s Economic Offences Wing on Aditi Singh’s complaint that a man posing as a senior official of the Law Ministry in June last year had offered to help secure bail for her husband, who was in jail at that time, in return for money. Shivinder Singh had been arrested for alleged misappropriation of funds at Religare Finvest Ltd in 2019.
Paul and Chandrashekhar were produced in a Patiala House Court today after their custody ended. The ED is also questioning actors Nora Fatehi and Jacqueline Fernandez in this case. The latter was to appear in this case today, but she did not appear before the ED citing her busy schedule. She has been asked to appear on Monday.
Fatehi had been questioned by the ED for about nine hours on Thursday.