Conspiracy was hatched
at Jaya's Poes Garden residence:
SC
Chennai's Poes Garden, residence of late J Jayalalithaa, was the hub of
conspiracy and the money flow from one account to another proved the
existence of an "active conspiracy" to launder the then Chief Minister's
"ill-gotten wealth" to purchase properties in the names of the shell
companies, the Supreme Court said to
Conspiracy was hatched at Jayas Poes Garden residence: SC
Chennai's Poes Garden, residence of late J Jayalalithaa, was the hub of
conspiracy and the money flow from one account to another proved the
existence of an "active conspiracy" to launder the then Chief Minister's
"ill-gotten wealth" to purchase properties in the names of the shell
companies, the Supreme Court said today.
The apex court said V K Sasikala and her two relatives -- V N
Sudhakaran, Jayalalithaa's foster son, and Elavarasi, the widow of
Sasikala's elder brother, resided at Poes Garden with Jayalalithaa
"without any blood relation between them". They were "accommodated"
there, not on humanitarian concern, but pursuant to the conspiracy
hatched by them.
"The flow of money from one account to the other proves that there
existed active conspiracy to launder the ill-gotten wealth of
Jayalalithaa for purchasing properties in the names of the firms," a
bench of Justices P C Ghose and Amitava Roy said while convicting
Sasikala and her relatives in the 19-year-old disproportionate assets
case.
"The joint residence of all the accused persons also could not be
ignored as a factor contributing to the charge of conspiracy and
abetment, when assessed together with the attendant facts and
circumstances reinforcing the said imputations," the bench said.
"The unimpeded, frequent and spontaneous inflow of funds from the
account of Jayalalithaa to those of the other co-accused and the
firms/companies involved, overwhelmingly demonstrate the collective
culpable involvement of the respondents in the transactions in the face
of their overall orientations so as to render the same to be masked
banking exchanges though involving several accounts but mostly of the
same bank. No other view is possible," the apex court said.
The bench said these companies were "operating" from Poes Garden and "it
cannot be accepted that she (Jayalalithaa) was unaware of the same even
though she feigned ignorance about the activities carried on by
Sasikala and two others. They were residing with Jayalalithaa without
any blood relation between them".
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