Hours after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) rejected Rhea Chakraborty’s request for deferring her questioning, the actor appeared before the financial probe agency in Mumbai on Friday with her brother Showik Chakraborty at 11.50 a.m. for questioning. The ED will record her statement under the Prevention of the Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.It will question her about financial dealings and the investment into properties. The ED will also question her about the financial transactions from the late actor’s bank account in the last one year.The ED on July 31 registered a money laundering case which pertains to “suspicious transactions” worth Rs 15 crore in connection allegedly from the late actor’s account.Sushant’s father filed an FIR in Patna on July 25, accusing Rhea and some others of abatement to suicide, fraud and holding Sushant hostage.
The ED named Rhea and her family members in the case on the basis of the FIR filed by the Bihar Police.The ED has also sought details of the financial transactions of the firm in which Rhea is a director and another firm in which her brother Showik Chakraborty is a director.
