Nearly three months after their arrest in a Rs 19 crore cheating case, Enforcement Directorate has traced Rs 13.21 crore deposited in various banks by alleged conman Sukash Chandrasekharan and three associates, including budding actress Leena Maria Paul.
All of them had been arrested and lodged in a prison here on money laundering charges.
An Enforcement Directorate press release said the Joint Director, ED, Chennai has attached Rs 13.21 crore and a complaint would be filed before the Adjudicating Authority, Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) for confirming the provisional attachment.
Based on an FIR filed by Central Crime Branch,Chennai, ED had registered a case and arrested Chandrasekharan in July under various sections of IPC for colluding with former Canara Bank Branch Manager Jagadeesha, who violated norms and permitted withdrawals upto Rs 19 crore from a private firm's account.
It said the firm's Managing Director Balasubramanian and Jagadeesha had acted on the advice of Chandrasekharan, who posed as an IAS officer from Bangalore and promised to award them a government tender to procure automated vending machines worth Rs 132 crore.
Leena Maria Paul was arrested from a farmhouse in Delhi on May 28.
