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extort `25 cr bribe from SRK’

Aryan Khan drugs case: CBI’s FIR reveals plans of Sameer Wankhede

First India Bureau

New Delhi/Mumbai:

Former NCB zonal head Sameer Wankhede had threatened to frame Aryan Khan in a narcotics case unless actor Shah Rukh Khan’s family paid a bribe of `25 crore, the CBI has alleged in its FIR. The FIR said that Wankhede and some other officials of agency even received a token amount of `50L as bribe but some money was returned later due to case getting stuck.

The details of FIR, made public on Monday, revealed that independent witness KP Gosavi and one Prabhakar Sail, now deceased, were included by the NCB in the Cordelia cruise ship drug raid on October 2, 2021 on the directions of Sameer Wankhede.

The Fir States

l FIR states that Gosavi, along with his aide, was responsible for Aryan’s arrest and had entered into conspiracy to “extort an amount” of `25 crore from the family members of Aryan by “threatening them of the accusation of offences of possession of Narcotics substances” l In order to let him walk free, Gosavi and D’Souza negotiated the amount bringing it down to `18 cr and even collected a token

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of `50 lakh and returned a part of amount later l NCB’s Special Enquiry Team (SET) in its findings, now part of the FIR, said

Aryan and other suspects in the Cordelia Ship drugs bust case were brought to the NCB office in Gosavi’s pvt vehicle on Oct 2, 2021 l Sameer Wankhede also concealed information regarding his foreign trips and purchase of expensive watches

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