Actress Urvashi Rautela Summoned: Days after questioning former Indian cricketers Shikhar Dhawan and Suresh Raina, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) Sunday summoned former TMC MP Mimi Chakraborty and actor Urvashi Rautela to join the ongoing probe in an alleged illegal betting app-linked money laundering case.
The development comes days after the central agency questioned and recorded the statements of Dhawan and Raina.
A source said Mimi Chakraborty has been asked to depose before the agency on Monday morning at its Delhi headquarters in an illegal betting case linked to an app named 1xBet, and Urvashi has been asked to appear on Tuesday. “Once they depose, the ED is expected to record their statements under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA),” the source said.
The ED believes that Urvashi and Mimi are linked to the app through certain endorsements, and officials are expected to probe their connection to it during questioning.
Last month, the ED summoned Raina and recorded his statement under the provisions of the PMLA. “During questioning, they asked him how the owners of a betting app approached him, how money was paid to him, where they paid the tax and about several money transactions,” a source said.
The agency is probing multiple such cases involving illegal betting apps that are alleged to have duped numerous people and investors worth crores of rupees or evaded a huge amount of taxes.
The initial ED probe into the case has revealed that multiple laws have been violated, including the Information Technology Act, the Foreign Exchange Management Act, the PMLA, etc.
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The agency questioned Dhawan on September 4 at its headquarters in Delhi in connection with the illegal betting case linked to 1xBet. The agency believes that Dhawan is linked to the app through certain endorsements, and officials probed his connection to it during questioning.
