Chennai: The Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (Economic Offence-II) Court, Egmore at Allikulam, grilled TTV Dhinakaran, Deputy General Secretary AIADMK (Amma) for nearly two hours in connection with a two decade old Fera case registered against him by Enforcement Directorate.
When the matter came up for hearing before ACMM (EO-II), S. Malarmathy on Thursday, the judge posed 91 questions to him. While replying to the questions, Dhinakaran said he was innocent.
On completion of cross-examining 12 prosecution witnesses, the judge directed Dhinakaran to appear before the court on October 26. He reached the court hall 20-minutes before the commencement of the trial on Thursday morning. His counsel has sought permission from the court to pose questions to the prosecution and also wish to submit list of questions. The judge sought reply from counsel for ED. Later, she adjourned the matter to 4 pm.
When the trial resumed at 4 pm, the judge rejected TTV’s counsel demand as it was not permitted in the law. She has posed 91 questions to him for nearly two hours. She read out the questionnaire from 61page document. While replying to the questions Dhinakaran stated that he was innocent and to several questions he answered that he does not remember. Later, the judge adjourned the matter to November 1 for further hearing.
The matter relates to the case registered against 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.
