ED freezes bookies’ bank accounts following cases in Cricket Betting

Three bookies banks accounts where frozen in Ahmedabad by the Ahmedabad Unit of Enforcement Directorate. This happened in the past week after the bookies who own these bank accounts where involved in a cricket betting scandal. They are said to be involved in the international cricket betting racket that is termed as the Rs 2,600 crore.

The crackdown began in major Indian towns and started from Mumbai, Bhopal, Delhi and Indore where the officials had some banks accounts related to the scandal shut down and frozen. Some of the names tied to the frozen accounts include Ashish Grover, Paresh Bhatia and Aman Kapur. They were arrested from different towns where Grover was arrested from Delhi alongside Kapur while in Mumbai the officials and authorities made the arrest of Bhatia. All this events and arrests happened on Wednesday. The bank accounts where being frozen and not only those that are tied to the public sector but also those that are on the private sector as well.

All the three bookies that where tied to this cricket betting scandal where on Monday sent into Judicial custody by the PMLA a special court that is directed to dealing to such and related cases. There are also other pending cases as Sanjay Agarwal from Nagpur who is better known as Chhotu Nagpur and Muneer who is from Mumbai received summons for them to appear before the ED on Monday but of which both of them turn down this down.

Since the start of the crackdown a total of ten bookies have been arrested pertaining the case that was unveiled by ED Ahmedabad. The case started in March during the cricket world cup. The ED Ahmedabad has made progress in unveiling the bookies tied to this case and so far they have been able to recover eight mobile phones, two laptops, Rs 60 lakh in cashand also documents in Priyadarshini Vihar in Delhi the residence of Kapur. From Grover’s residence, five mobile phones where recovered in Prashant Vihar. This shows a great effort by the authorities to bring down such cases.

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