Bollywood actor Jacqueline Fernandez
received a plethora of expensive gifts from an infamous conman Sukesh
Chandrashekhar, as per information made available by the Enforcement
Directorate in its chargesheet.
The lavish gifts include a horse worth INR 52 lakh
and a Persian cat worth INR 9 lakh amongst several others which amounted to a
total value of INR 10 crore.
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The Enforcement Directorate filed the
chargesheet in a court in the national capital in a money laundering case. It
is alleged that Sukesh Chandrashekhar, while being lodged in the Tihar jail,
managed to extort a sum in the region of INR 200 crore from a businessman’s wife.
Jacqueline Fernandez is not the only
Bollywood personality to be questioned in the case. The chargesheet filed by
the probe agency mentions the name of actor Nora Fatehi, as well. She has been
questioned in the case alongside Fernandez and those part of her entourage.
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As per NDTV, Chandrashekhar had once told
media about the time he had gifted a car to Nora Fatehi.
According to the chargesheet, conversations
between Chandrashekhar and Jacqueline Fernandez began around January this year
following which the conman started sending the Bollywood actor expensive gifts,
sources told NDTV.
The list of tremendously expensive gifts
includes jewellery, crockery, four Persian cats – one of whom was worth INR 9
lakh and a horse worth INR 52 lakh, they added.
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The probe agency revealed that, Jacqueline
Fernandez often spoke to Sukesh Chadrashekhar over the phone while he was serving
time in the Tihar jail.
After Chandrashekhar was granted bail, he
went on to book a chartered flight for Jacqueline Fernandez for the actor to be
able to travel from Mumbai to Delhi and another one from Delhi to Chennai, as
per the revelations made in the chargesheet, according to sources.
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The conman also gifted a BMW vehicle, an
iPhone and other gifts which amounted to approximately INR 1 crore to Nora
Fatehi, as per the sources.