Published 11:08 IST, August 10th 2020
Rhea Chakraborty's statements to ED don't match CA's; company's website shows odd activity
ED sources have revealed that the IP address of Rhea's company in Navi Mumbai has been changed 17 times over the past year with most recent on Friday, August 7.
Rhea Chakraborty and her family are appearing before officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday for a follow up of their previous interaction on Friday. Sources from the ED office have disclosed that Rhea will be strictly questioned based on the statements of Sushant’s CA and Rhea’s CA, who were also interrogated over the weekend. Rhea Chakraborty has been booked under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) by the ED after Sushant's father KK Singh alleged in his FIR that Rhea and her family embezzled an amount of Rs. 15 crores from his deceased son's account in the last year.
Further, sources have informed of Rhea's ambiguous answers when questioned about the amount withdrawn from the late actor's bank account. Her responses reportedly did not match with those of her CA's as both gave different narratives of the money allegedly withdrawn from Sushant's account. The ED has also questioned Rhea about the four companies that she formed along with Sushant and her brother Showik.
In the interrogation on Monday, ED is likely to probe further into the role of these companies in allegedly siphoning off Rs.15 crore from the late actor's account. It has been observed by the investigating officers that the IP address of one Navi Mumbai based firm, headed by Rhea and her brother, has changed 17 times in the last year. The last IP address change in the company is, shockingly, as recent as August 7. To add to the intrigue, the website has been taken down.
Along with the reason for these seemingly suspicious changes, ED will also question Rhea's father Indrojit Chakraborty along with her brother about their roles in the management of the company. The probe by ED into the financial transactions made between Rhea, her family and Sushant Singh Rajput is reportedly based on the digital evidence that they have gathered so far. It was revealed earlier that officials have taken a data backup of two phones of Rhea Chakraborty, one phone of her father Indrojit Chakraborty and one of Showik.
Apart from the ED probe, Sushant's mysterious death case was also being investigated by the Bihar Police and Mumbai Police. However, the case has now been taken over by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Supreme Court, after careful scrutiny of the investigations conducted by different agencies so far in Sushant Singh Rajput's alleged suicide, will give its verdict in response to Rhea's petition to transfer the probe to Mumbai Police on August 11.
Updated 11:08 IST, August 10th 2020