Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez seems to have found a “brilliant” defence to prove her innocence. In response to ED’s grilling, she has pulled out the potent victim card.
Instead of establishing the facts to the contrary of the accusations levelled against her, she adopted a whole hog aggressive strategy. Her legal counsel accused the financial watchdog agency of meting out differential treatment.
Privileged accused?
It seems that the brainiac Lankan actor Jacqueline Fernandez wants to turn the table on ED officials. Evidently, Jacqueline Fernandez made a plea before the Appellate Authority of PMLA accusing that the agency was not using the same yardsticks for every individual involved in the money laundering case.
She levelled serious accusations that preferential treatment is given to other celebrities. She asserted that just like her other celebrities, notably, Nora Fatehi, also has received gifts from main accused Sukesh Chandrashekar.
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She blamed that even after so many striking similarities she was wrongfully framed as an accused while others were made witnesses in the money laundering case. Rather than being an accused she presented herself as a victim of Sukesh’s extortion racket.
200 cr money laundering case: Nora Fatehi made witness whereas she's is an accused, Jacqueline alleges ED probe differentiating
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Her plea before the Appellate Authority stated, “…The agencies have failed to appreciate that she was cheated and conned into this matter. She is a victim of the modus operandi adopted by the main accused Chandrasekhar.”
The plea termed the money laundering against Jacqueline Fernandez as baseless, stating that no charges should have been levelled against her. Further claiming the entire case to be malafide.
The plea added,” Taking the entire prosecution case to be true for the sake of arguments, even then, no case is made out against her under the scheme of PMLA or any other law in force. This is a case of malafide prosecution.”
The backdrop of her plea
Just a week ago, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) filed a supplementary charge-sheet before the Additional Sessions Judge, Praveen Singh. The agency charged Jacqueline Fernandez as an accused in the Rs 200 crore extortion case against conman Chandrashekar.
Interestingly, this is the first time that ED has named Jacqueline Fernandez as an accused in the money laundering. Previously, the agency only listed Bollywood actors Jacqueline Fernandez and Nora Fatehi in the case’s facts
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This supplementary charge-sheet prompted her to make a plea before the Appellate Authority. Along with the accusation of differential treatment, she also challenged the Adjudicating Authority’s order.
The order had allowed provisional attachment of her movable assets including her fixed deposits with bank, to the tune of Rs 7.12 crores.
In the plea she had argued against this attachment. The plea claimed that the fixed deposits attached are not alleged profits of crime. Rather from the actor’s legitimate income. It was emphasised that it was done long before the actor met the main accuser, Sukhesh Chandrasekhar.
As per ED, in Oct 2021, Sukesh was confronted with Jacqueline. She stated that Sukesh had arranged private jet trips and hotel stay for her on various occasion.
Other important details of the Money laundering case
Aside from that, ED has twice recorded Nora Fatehi’s statement under Section 50 of the PMLA, 2002. In her statement, she stated of being invited to a charity event in which she received a Gucci Bag and one iphone from Sukhesh’s wife Leena Paulose. Leena mediated a telephonic conversation between Nora and Sukesh. Later, she announced a BMW car as gift to Nora.
Parallely, ED gathered substantial evidence against Sukesh, his wife and their associates. On the basis of information gathered from investigation-raids were carried out at several places linked to conman Sukesh and his associates. In the raids, ED seized 16 high-end vehicles which were either in the name of firms of Leena or third parties. ED officials claimed that Sukesh has created this structure on purpose of layering and funnelling proceeds of crime.
The new charge-sheet by ED seems to have made the actor jittery. She has gone berserk demanding the agency should function as per her whims and fancies. She should know few basic things about law that whosoever helps the agency to catch culprits are treated as witness. So, rather than throwing tantrums she should either prove her innocence or help the agency to take the case to its logical conclusion.
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