Tollywood Drug Case: After Puri Jagannadh & Charmee, Actress Rakul Preet Appears Before ED

Earlier, ED had interrogated actress Charmee Kaur and director Puri Jagannadh in connection with the drug case.

Rakul Preet (Source: Filmfare Twitter handle)

Chennai: Actress Rakul Preet Singh on Friday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Hyderabad after being summoned in connection with the money laundering probe of a high-end drug racket case busted in 2017. 

According to a Mint report, sleuths from ED had summoned about 10 Tollywood, Telugu film industry personalities in connection with the drug racket which supplied narcotics like LSD and MDMA, busted by the Telangana’s prohibition and excise department in 2017.

Hyderabad | Actor Rakul Preet Singh arrives at the office of Enforcement Directorate (ED), in connection with a drugs case pic.twitter.com/FwvplHmFnI

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Earlier, ED had interrogated actress Charmee Kaur and director Puri Jagannadh in connection with the case, the report added. 

According to the report, after the racket was busted in 2017, multiple cases were registered and over 20 people including a US citizen who was a former NASA employee, a Dutch citizen, a South African national and seven graduates working with multinational companies. It is only during the investigation, names of Tollywood personalities had started to spill. 

Further, the report said that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Telangana’s Prohibition and Excise department had interrogated 11 Tollywood personalities including actors, directors and driver of one of the actors and collected their nail and hair samples. 

According to the report, ED has summoned the Tollywood personalities who were already questioned by SIT, to appear before it for questioning. Rakul Preet was also questioned by SIT earlier. She was also questioned in connection with the drug probe linked to Actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death.