RAJ Kundra breaks silence over controversy, case and media trial, said- If found guilty by a court of law, I will face every consequence

Actress Shilpa Shetty and her businessman husband constantly have to face media trial and trolling, sometimes due to fraud case and sometimes due to other matters. Recently the couple has also been accused of fraud of Rs 60 crore. Now after a long silence, Raj Kundra has given a frank statement on the controversies and the case. He says that if the court finds him guilty, he is ready for any punishment.

Raj Kundra wrote on Official I remained silent, I respected the system and endured the media trial, speculation and trolling. Now it is too much. I want the truth through a fair and final verdict. If the court finds me guilty, I will face every punishment. Till then, let me be judged not by noise, but only by justice – Raj Kundra.

Shilpa-Raj have been accused of fraud of Rs 60 crores

Cases have been registered against Shilpa Shetty in many cases. Raj Kundra was in the news for the pornography case in 2021. Recently, a businessman has accused Shilpa-Raj of fraud of Rs 60 crore.

In August 2025, a Mumbai businessman Deepak Kothari has filed a complaint against Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra for fraud of Rs 60 crore. According to Deepak Kothari, he met Shilpa and Kundra in 2015 through agent Rajesh Arya. At that time both were directors of Best Deal TV and Shilpa held more than 87% shares of the company.

According to the complaint, it was decided in a meeting that Deepak would give loan to Shilpa and Raj Kundra’s company. A loan of Rs 75 crore was sought for the company, on which interest was fixed at 12% per annum.

Deepak Kothari alleges that later Shilpa and Kundra told him that there could be tax problems on the loan, hence they show it as an investment and will give returns every month. In April 2015, Kothari made the first payment of about Rs 31.95 crore. As tax issues continued, a second deal was struck in September and between July 2015 and March 2016, he transferred another Rs 28.54 crore.

In total he gave Rs 60.48 crore, also paid Rs 3.19 lakh as stamp duty. Kothari claims that Shilpa had given him a personal guarantee in April 2016, but in September the same year, she resigned from the post of director of the company.

After this, a case of non-payment of loan of Rs 1.28 crore came to light against Shilpa’s company. Kothari had no knowledge of this. He asked for his money back several times, but did not receive any response or money.

First the case was registered at Juhu Police Station under fraud and forgery. Since the amount was more than Rs 10 crore, the investigation has been handed over to the Economic Offenses Wing (EOW). EOW is investigating this case.

Shilpa was interrogated for 4 and a half hours

On October 7, in the fraud case, the EOW (Economic Offense Wing) team reached Shilpa Shetty’s house and interrogated her for about 4 and a half hours. Apart from Shilpa, Raj Kundra’s statement was also recorded.

When Raj was interrogated in the month of October. During this, he had said that the amount given by Deepak Kothari to Best Deal was given to Bipasha Basu, Neha Dhupia and producer Ekta Kapoor as professional fees.

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