The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached assets amounting to Rs 7.27 crore, including fixed deposits worth Rs 7.12 crore of actress Jacqueline Fernandez under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in a case related to conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar.

Chandrasekhar is accused of extorting Rs 215 crore from the wife of a Delhi-based businessman through spoof calls. While he was lodged in a Delhi jail in June 2020, he allegedly extorted money from the victim by pretending to be an officer from the Prime Minister’s office, the Law Ministry and the Home Ministry. In the phone calls, he claimed that he’d secure bail for the victim’s husband and get their pharmaceutical business running.