The ED has filed a fresh money laundering case against conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar and others for allegedly duping Aditi Singh, spouse of former promoter of pharma major Ranbaxy, Shivinder Singh, of Rs 200 crore. Chandrasekhar faces several cases by the Delhi Police and the ED.
The ED took cognisance of the Delhi Police’s Economic Offences Wing FIR for registering the latest case against Chandrasekhar under Prevention of Money Laundering Act, sources said. The agency is also in the process of registering another money laundering case in connection with the conman duping Japna Singh, wife of another former Ranbaxy promoter Malvinder Singh, to the tune of nearly four crore.
Besides Chandrasekhar, the agency has named his associates Deepak and Pradeep Ramdani who allegedly received the cash worth Rs 150 crore from the spouse of the pharma major’s former promoter in the national Capital.
The conman, according to the ED, has been running an extortion racket from the Rohini jail here where is undergoing judicial custody. The modus operandi of the conman entailed using an illegally procured mobile phone inside the jail and making spoofed calls posing himself as senior Government functionaries offering assistance in pending cases of high profile accused in lieu of a charge. ‘
In Aditi Singh’s case, the conman offered her help in getting bail to Singh brothers who were undergoing custody in criminal cases.
The sources said out of the Rs 200 crore received from Aditi Singh, Rs 150 crore were handed over to the conman’s associates in three equal tranches of Rs 50 crore each and another Rs 50 crore was transferred through banking channels to an offshore account.