Not a whisper in investigation to back up allegations against me in Sukesh case, Pinky Irani told court

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Pinky Irani, accused in a Rs 200 crore extortion case against alleged con artist Sukesh Chandrashekar, told a Delhi court on Monday that there was not a whisper in the investigation to back up the allegations. against her.

Irani had been accused of introducing several actors to Chandrashekar in prison and acting as his personal shopper.

Presenting his case before Extra Sessions Judge Shailender Malik during closing arguments on the charges, Irani’s lawyer, RK Handoo, told the court that his client was supposed to be a witness in the case and that he was not there is not a whisper to satisfy the claims under the prevention of money laundering. law (PMLA).

Everyone took money. The whole world took money and I’m targeted, the whole complaint is an endless amount of nothing, Handoo told the court.

Informing the court on how Chandrashekar allegedly paid a screenwriter Rs 15 lakh to produce a film for actor Jacqueline Fernandez, Handoo asked that if the writer was not charged, why would his client, who was promised a CEO position in a news agency in the same way, does a defendant in the case.

His payment (of Fernandez) is in good faith and my payment is in bad faith. Jacqueline really believed that a film was being made. Is receipt of Rs 15 lakh not proceeds of crime? My client was promised the job of CEO at a news agency. I had to run a channel, become an editor. He (Chandrashekar) knows how to take a pound of flesh, Handoo told the court.

Handoo said it was Chandrashekar, not her client, who posed as an MHA official to contact Fernandez’s hairdresser to get in touch with her.

I am not the middleman in this business. You (Chandrashekar) will go to any means to reach someone. He started giving presents and said I was an officer. He was being projected as an officer by Tihar prison authorities, Handoo told the court.

He said an ordinary person who does not know how a prison works would not know that Chandrashekar was a defendant in this case, remarking that he was living the life of a governor inside the prison.

An entire floor has been assigned to him. There were two armed guards. People came in BMW cars directly from the airport to Tihar prison. He told them he would make them a star. How does this fall under the PMLA? Handoo asked.

Irani, a former television presenter, was arrested last year by the economic crimes wing for her alleged links to Chandrashekar. She is currently out on bail.

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