Actress Jacqueline Fernandez is being questioned by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police on Wednesday in connection with a Rs 200 crore extortion case linked to conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar.
Jacqueline reached the EOW office by 11:30am, after the Delhi Police issued a third summons. The police had asked her to appear for questioning on September 12, but she skipped it citing busy work schedule. She had asked for a date to appear after 15 days, but the police refused the request.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED), in its chargesheet had named Jacqueline as an accused in a multi-crore money laundering case linked to Sukesh, and said the actress is "directly or indirectly involved in the proceeds of crime."
Jacqueline consistently shifted her stance with regard to the gifts being received by her and her relatives from Sukesh, the agency noted in its chargesheet. The agency had found in its probe that Chandrashekhar was in "regular contact" with the actress from February until he was arrested on August 7 last year by the Delhi Police.
The ED in April provisionally attached Rs 7.27 crore funds of the actress under the PMLA apart from Rs 15 lakh in cash.
-with PTI inputs