New Delhi: Bollywood actress Leena Maria Paul’s custodial interrogation extended upto October 23^rd by a Delhi Court in a money laundering case related to extortion of ₹ 200 crore from a businessman’s wife.

According to the ED sources Leena Maria Paul was not merely beneficiary of the proceeds of crime but apparently was playing an active role in movement of the proceeds of crime, its projection as untended money and was working in concert with main accused Sukesh Chandrashekar (her husband). During the actor’s custody and interrogation, care will be taken to ensure proper distancing in order to avoid accused catching any infection, said ED.

The actress and her husband allegedly duped former Fortis Healthcare promoter Shivinder Mohan Singh’s wife Aditi Singh. The case was filed on the basis of an FIR lodged by Delhi Police’s Economic Offences Wing on Aditi Singh’s complaint that a man posing as a senior official of the Law Ministry in June last year had offered to help secure bail for her husband, who was in jail at that time, in return for money.

Shivinder Singh was arrested in a money laundering case related to the alleged misappropriation of funds at Religare Finvest Ltd (RFL) in 2019. ED said that Leena Maria Paul’s company Nail Artistry has done business to the tune of Rs.4.79 crore in Chennai, Rs.1.21 crore in Kochi and charged that the said sum of money is nothing but proceeds of crime which were laundered by her. Data from her three mobile phones is also to be retrieved, said the ED.