The Enforcement Directorate on Sunday summoned actress Urvashi Rautela and former Trinamool Congress MP Mimi Chakraborty in connection with the case of alleged money-laundering related to illegal betting apps.
Urvashi Rautela and Mimi Chakraborty. (X/ @UrvashiRautela, @mimichakraborty)
While former MP Chakraborty has been asked to appear at the agency's Delhi headquarters on Monday in relation to the case on 1xBet app, Rautela will depose before ED on Tuesday, PTI quoted sources as saying.
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The ED had, last week, questioned Indian cricketer Shikhar Dhawan for approximately eight hours in connection with the same money laundering probe. Another cricketer, Suresh Raina, had also been questioned by the agency last month in connection to the same case.
The ED has been looking for links of celebrities with the betting apps, any endorsement fees earned, and the mode of communication between them. The agency had also called Google and Meta representatives for questioning as part of the probe.
The agency is probing multiple cases involving illegal betting apps, which allegedly duped several of its users and investors worth crores of rupees, or have indulged in evasion of taxes.
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