Chennai: AIADMK (Amma) deputy general secretary T.T.V. Dhinakaran appeared before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (Economic Offence-II) Court, Egmore at Allikulam in connection with a Fera case registered against him by Enforcement Directorate two decades ago.
The Madras high court earlier directed the ACMM to complete cross-examining witness before August 31.
Based on direction of the Madras high court, judge S. Malarmathy framed fresh charges against him on August 3. Dhinarakan has been facing trial before the ACMM (EO-II) in connection with two cases registered by the ED – one was alleged transfer of 1.04 crore US dollars to Dipper Investment through Barclay Bank, Virgin Islands, and another with illegal routing of US Dollar 36000 and 1 lakh Pounds for starting star hotel in UK. He had planned a start star hotel ‘Hopscroft Holt’ in UK.
Dhinakaran allegedly exchanged a huge sum of money through his Dipper Investments, Turnkey and Banyan Tree, British Virgin Islands. The ED registered the cases against him for violation of provisions of Fera initiated in 1996 and 2001.
When the matter came up for hearing on Wednesday, the judge adjourned the case to August 28 for cross-examining the prosecution witness.
Meanwhile, judge S. Malarmathy condemned the Enforcement Directorate, which sought to adjournment of another two-decade-old case relating to illegal import of Lexus luxury car by M. Natarajan, husband of AIADMK (Amma) general secretary V.K. Sasikala, his nephew V. Bhaskaran, Yogesh Balakrishnan and Sujaritha Sundararajan.
When the special public prosecutor for ED sought the permission of the court to peruse a few more documents relating to the case, the judge condemned the counsel for seeking adjournment and posted the case to August 29 for further hearing.
