ED attaches assets worth Rs 1.84 crore in Surat’s illegal betting case

The ED initiated its probe based connected an FIR registered by the Surat police’s Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) wherein it was alleged that Harish had allegedly committed a transgression conspiracy with co-accused Rushikesh Adhikar Shinde and Huzefa Kausar Masakarwala.

They allegedly obtained galore people’s individuality documents, prepared “rent agreements” successful their names, forged the signatures of store owners successful specified agreements, and misused the individuality documents to get licenses for dummy firms and unfastened dummy accounts with assorted banks.

In its connection connected Friday, the ED said that its probe — which “traced” the wealth generated done amerciable betting mobile applications CBTF247.com and T20EXCHANGE.com — had revealed that these dummy accounts were utilized for the intent of routing and layering these funds.

The connection said that from the investigation, they recovered that Rajesh Lakhani, the proprietor of M/s. Maitri Enterprises and M/s. VC Metals Pvt. Ltd, had allegedly received wealth from these dummy slope accounts.

Earlier, successful this case, searches were conducted, and a equilibrium of Rs 5.67 crore crossed 92 slope accounts was frozen and seized. A prosecution ailment successful this respect had been filed earlier Ahmedabad’s PMLA Court connected October 25, 2024. Further probe is underway.