How conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar extorted over Rs 200 crore from businessman's wife from jail
India Today
From June 2020 to May 2021, conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar, using some mobile applications and voice modulation softwares, made calls to a business tycoon's wife while sitting in jail and extorted over Rs 200 crore.
A billionaire in jail, his wife desperate to secure bail, and a conman looking to make crores. As the wife spent hours talking to and negotiating with who she believed was a senior government official, the conman wove an intricate web of deceit to make over Rs 200 crore, all the while sitting in a cell of Tihar jail in Delhi.
From June 2020 to May 2021, conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar, using some mobile applications and voice modulation softwares, made calls to Aditi Singh (wife of former Ranbaxy owner Shivendra Singh who is in jail) impersonating as an officer - sometimes as Law Secretary, Home Secretary, representative of Home Minister Amit Shah, representative of Prime Minister's Office. He extorted Rs 215 crore on the pretext of helping her husband in getting out of jail.
