Anca Verma (née Neacșu; born 8 August 1987) is a former Romanian

model A model is an informative representation of an object, person, or system. The term originally denoted the plans of a building in late 16th-century English, and derived via French and Italian ultimately from Latin , . Models can be divided in ...

. She is married to Abhishek Verma and is known for being arrested along with her husband for alleged corruption and money laundering case in New Delhi, India. In 2017 Verma was discharged in two money laundering and corruption cases by the CBI courts.

Career

After leaving modelling, she joined Atlas Telecom Network Romania, a mobile service provider. Verma was the Chairperson of Olialia World a

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company. Verma is involved in philanthropic activities in

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and

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Arrest and imprisonment

Verma and her husband have been accused of corruption and money laundering and were arrested by the CBI for supposedly

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Indian defense officials to secure billion-dollar weapons contracts. On 8 June 2012, they were both imprisoned in

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, Delhi. Verma was the inspiration for author

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who wrote a book Prison Tales published by

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and featured Verma as the VIP inmate who wore 24K gold plated

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high heel shoes in prison. Verma's bail plea was rejected by the

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in March 2015, but on 20 May 2016 the court granted her bail after four years in prison. According to Indian investigators, their attempts to freeze Verma's offshore bank accounts in the

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had been unsuccessful as the Liechtenstein government rejected the request from

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India, calling it a '

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' as no charges had been brought forward that could constitute a criminal offence in Liechtenstein or the

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. In April 2017, Verma was

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by a

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of CBI in New Delhi from the charges of corruption and

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and the two cases against Verma were dismissed.

References

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