Ravi Teja is among the over 10 Tollywood (Telugu film industry) personalities, including actors and directors, to be summoned by the ED
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Popular Telugu actor Ravi Teja appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) as part of the ongoing money laundering probe in connection with a high-end drugs racket busted in the city in 2017.
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Ravi Teja is among the over 10 Tollywood (Telugu film industry) personalities, including actors and directors, to be summoned by the ED. So far noted filmmaker Puri Jagannadh, actresses Charmee Kaur and Rakul Preet Singh, actors Nandu and Rana Daggubati have appeared before the central agency. Calvin Mascrenhas, a musician, who was among the three-member gang arrested by Telangana's Prohibition and Excise department on July 2, 2017, for allegedly peddling narcotic as part of the racket, was also questioned by the ED.
The racket involved supplying high-end drugs such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and methylenedioxy- methamphetamine (MDMA). Several cases related to the drug trafficking were registered and over 20 people were arrested including a US citizen, who was a former aerospace engineer and had worked with the NASA, a Dutch national, a South African national besides seven B.Tech degree holders employed with multi-national companies here.
The names of some Tollywood personalities came out during the interrogation of persons arrested in connection with the racket. A Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Prohibition and Excise department, as part of its investigation had also probed the alleged drug-links with Tollywood, and had then questioned 11 people connected to the Telugu film industry including actors and directors besides the driver of one of the actors.
The investigators suspected that film personalities, employees of MNCs, school and college students were among the gang's clients. The racketeers placed orders through 'Darknet' (a restricted online network frequently used in illegal activities) and the drugs were delivered by couriers, including from overseas.
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