Gurgaon: Gurgaon Police registered a case against former Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova, former Formula 1 driver Michael Schumacher and 11 others for fraud and criminal conspiracy after a court order, reported news agency PTI.
The FIR was filed following a complaint from a Delhi woman, who accused them of fraud. The FIR has been lodged under Sections 34 (common intention), 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 420 (cheating) of the IPC at the Badshahpur police station.
A Chattarpur Mini Farm resident in New Delhi, Shafali Agarwal, lodged a complaint that she had booked an apartment in a project named after Sharapova. A tower in the project was named after legendary F1 driver Schumacher, she said. The project which was scheduled to be completed by 2016 never took off, the complainant added.
The woman alleged that the international celebrities were part of the fraud via their association and promotion of it.
Earlier, Shafali had lodged a complaint in a Gurugram court against M/S Realtech Development and Infrastructure (INDIA) Pvt. Ltd, other developers, Sharapova and Schumacher for duping her of around ₹ 80 lakh, reported the agency.
“We came to know about the project through advertisements and reached out to the company management after pictures of the project and a lot of false promises were made,” she was quoted as saying in her complaint by the agency.
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