Kannada actress-producer Radhika Kumaraswamy says she received money from imposter as advance

Bengaluru, Jan 6 : Kannada actress and producer Radhika Kumaraswamy on Wednesday denied she had received Rs 1.25 crore from S. Yuvaraj Swamy Yadav. Instead, she claimed she had received Rs 15 lakh from him and Rs 60 lakh from a producer, that too as an advance for a film in which she was to act.
It is worth noting here, that the Bengaluru police arrested Swamy Yadav, 55, posing as a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) functionary for allegedly cheating government job aspirants by convincing them of his “strong political connections” on December 17.
Since last week, reports started appearing in a section of the media alleging that Radhika too was involved in this scam as she had received Rs 1.25 crore from him.
To give credence to these reports, the police summoned Radhika’s elder brother Raviraj and questioned him for more than an hour regarding his connections with Swamy Yadav.
In a hurriedly convened press conference, Radhika told reporters that her family knew Swamy Yadav for the last 17 years and knew him as an “astrologer” through her father.
“He had predicted that I would be the mother of a girl child when I was 16 year old, subsequently he also predicted my father’s death which also came true. Similarly there were many incidents that he predicted about our family that turned out to be true. Therefore, our relationship got stronger over a period of 17 years. I was also shocked to hear that he was arrested. Prior to his arrest, he predicted that I would be in trouble till February of this year and what an ironic prediction it turned out to be. I came in trouble only because of him,” she explained.