Mahadev app case: 25 accuse ,organizations mentioned in ED’s new complaint letter
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Raipur ( Team Newsbuddy): Enforcement Directorate filed a new chargesheet in the money laundering case related to the Mahadev betting app. A total of 25 people have been booked in this. Many high-ranking politicians and bureaucrats of Chhattisgarh are accused of involvement in this.
ED lawyer Saurabh Pandey said that a total of 25 persons and entities have been named as accused in the third prosecution complaint filed before the special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in this case. He said that the court will take action on the chargesheet on May 4. Those accused in the chargesheet include Girish Talreja and Suraj Chokhani, among others, who were arrested by the ED in this case some time ago.
Talreja had a stake in ‘Lotus365’, a subsidiary of the Mahadev Online Book (MOB) app. The agency had earlier alleged that he was a partner with Rattan Lal Jain alias Aman and Saurabh Chandrakar, the main promoter of MOB, in the illegal operation of ‘Lotus365’. The agency had on February 28 raided the Kolkata premises of a Dubai-based “hawala operator” named Hari Shankar Tibrewal, claiming that he had partnered with the promoters of MOB in the illegal operation of betting website “Skyexchange”.
“Tibrewal used Suraj Chokhani to launder and conceal the proceeds of crime under the guise of share investments for Indian companies,” the agency had said in a statement. The ED has alleged that its investigation into the MOB gaming and betting app has shown the involvement of various high-ranking politicians and bureaucrats of Chhattisgarh, the state where the two main promoters of the app, Saurabh Chandrakar and Ravi Uppal, are based.
It had said that the MOB app is a wide-ranging syndicate that arranges online platforms to enable illegal betting websites to enroll new users, create user IDs and launder funds through a layered web of benami bank accounts. The ED has arrested a total of 11 people in the case so far. The two main promoters of the app are said to have been detained in Dubai on the basis of an Interpol red notice requested by the ED.
