April 30, 2022: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached assets worth Rs 7.27 crore of Jacqueline Fernandez in the extortion and money laundering case against conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar. The attached assets include fixed deposit worth Rs 7.12 crore under Jacqueline Fernandez.

The ED has estimated that Sukesh had given gifts worth Rs 5.71 crore to Jacqueline using the extorted money. He had also given funds close to US dollar 1,73,000 and around 27,000 Australian dollar to close family members of Jacqueline.

Sukesh is currently involved in a five-year-old cheating case involving politician TTV Dhinakaran. He was placed under arrest by the ED on April 4 in relation to the case.

Last year, Sukesh was arrested by the ED for extorting Rs 215 crore from a Delhi businessman’s wife by impersonating officials of the Home Ministry and Law Ministry. In December 2021, Jacqueline appeared before the ED after she was summoned for questioning in the investigation against Sukesh.