The Delhi High Court on Tuesday refused to grant bail to Lena Paulose in a case $A Rs 200-crore extortion case involving her alleged cheating husband Sukesh Chandrasekhar, but granted her a reprieve in a related money laundering case.
“I rejected the application in the MCOCA case but allowed it in (the ED case),” Justice Prateek Jalan said while dealing with the bail applications filed by Boles in the two cases investigated by the Delhi Police and the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
Delhi Police detained Chandrashekar for allegedly cheating the wives of Ranbaxy’s former promoters Shivinder Singh and Malvinder Singh. $200 Crores.
The police alleged that Chandrasekhar and his associates took money from Shivinder Mohan Singh’s wife, Aditi Singh, by posing as government officials and promising to secure bail for her husband, who was in jail in a money laundering case.
Several separate investigations are currently underway against Chandrasekhar in the country.
The police invoked the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act (MCOCA) in the case.
Delhi Police alleged that Bolus, Chandrashekar and other accused used hawala and created shell companies to deposit the money obtained as proceeds of crime.
The ED then initiated an investigation under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act based on the police case.
