Tollywood Drugs Case: Ravi Teja appears before ED office amid heavy police deployment

Many Tollywood celebs such as Rana Daggubati, Rakul Preet Singh, and Charmme Kaur among others were summoned by the Enforcement Directorate in connection to the 2017 drugs and money laundering case. And now, Ravi Teja, who was summoned too, was clicked by the paps as he appeared before the ED amidst heavy police deployment. We had earlier reported that Rakul, Rana, Puri Jagganadh and Charmme were already questioned and some of them were asked to share their financial records.

For the uninitiated, no charge sheets were created against any actor due to a lack of evidence. In 2017, authorities of Telangana’s Prohibition and Excise department in Hyderabad had busted a drug racket in which several students in the city were allegedly found using high-end narcotics such as LSD and MDMA. The dealers also apparently were supplying drugs to several prominent celebs from the Telugu movie industry.

The names of the celebrities came up in the call data of Calvin Mascarenhas, who is the alleged kingpin of the drug racket. ED has booked this particular case under PMLA i.e. Prevention of Money Laundering Act and all the financial history is under scrutiny to find any loopholes.

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Earlier actress Charmee Kaur was questioned by the ED for around eight hours about her financial transactions from the year 2015 to 2017. On the other hand, on August 31, Liger director Puri Jagannadh was questioned about his finances. He might be summoned again. An ED source told the media, “We will verify the financial transactions done by the 12 Tollywood celebrities summoned. If we find any evidence of money laundering, they will be made accused otherwise they will be treated as witnesses.”

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