Court dismisses TTV Dhinakaran's plea seeking cross-examination of 17 witnesses

Chennai: The Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (Economic Offence-II) Court, Egmore at Allikulam has dismissed a petition filed by TTV Dhinakaran seeking the court to grill 17 witnesses in connection with the two-decade-old FERA case registered against him by the Enforcement Directorate.

When the matter came up for hearing on Tuesday, judge S. Malarmathy dismissed the petition stating that there was no prima facie in the plea.
In the petition, TTV sought cross examination of 17 witnesses, including the then Embassy official in London, and the then ED officials. However, vehemently opposing this, the ED counsel said the plea was made by TTV in order to delay prosecution and complete the trial soon.

The matter relates to a case registered against TTV Dhinarakan for alleged illegal transfer of 1.04 crore US dollars to Dipper Investment through Barclay Bank, Virgin Islands. He is also facing another case in connection with illegal routing of US Dollar 36,000 and 1 lakh Pounds for starting star hotel in UK. He proposed start star hotel ‘Hopscroft Holt’ in UK.