New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday ordered framing of charges against 17 accused, including alleged swindler Sukesh Chandrashekhar and actor. Jacqueline FernandezAn alleged Rs 200 crore extortion and money laundering case is being investigated Enforcement Directorate (ED), paving the way for trial proceedings.The court said the accused “should be charged with the offense (of money laundering) under Section 3 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, which is punishable under Section 4 of the PMLA”.Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Prashant Sharma said that “prima facie, there is sufficient material on record based on which strong suspicion is raised against all the accused.”According to the prosecution, Chandrashekhar was running an organized criminal network from inside the jail and was impersonating senior government officials, including officials from the Prime Minister’s Office, Home Ministry and Law and Justice Ministry, PTI reported. He was arrested by Delhi Police in 2017 and by the Enforcement Directorate in 2021. Complainant Aditi Singh and her family alleged that they were induced to pay huge amounts of money through fake calls, encrypted applications and fabricated identities.The prosecution also alleged that the accused generated crime proceeds of over Rs 200 crore through extortion, fraud, impersonation and criminal intimidation. The money was later hidden, held, transferred, layered and presented as untainted assets with the help of associates.According to the ED, the proceeds of crime were used to buy properties, high-end luxury vehicles and expensive gifts. The agency also alleged that the money was sent through various bank accounts, hawala channels, cash delivery and shell entities.During the investigation, searches were conducted at several places and various incriminating materials were collected. ED said that the statements of the accused and several witnesses were recorded under Section 50 of PMLA.The agency said digital evidence including mobile phones, WhatsApp chats, Telegram communications, fake call records, forensic extraction reports, banking transactions and cash movement details were also collected.In its second supplementary complaint against Jacqueline Fernandez, the ED alleged that she was in constant touch with Chandrashekhar and had received valuable gifts from him through Pinky Irani.Apart from Sukesh Chandrashekhar alias Sukash Chandrashekhar, his wife Leena Maria Paul alias Leena Paulose, Jacqueline Fernandez, Deepak Ramnani, Pradeep Ramdani, B Mohanraj, Arun Muthu, D Kamlesh Kothari and Pinky Irani are among the accused.The other accused are Pooja Singh, Dharam Singh Meena, Mahendra Prasad Sundriyal, Sundar Bora, Komal Poddar, Jitendra Narula, Avinash Kumar and Jai Prakash Singhal.