Mahadev betting case: ED conducts multi-state searches, raids residence of travel firm founder

The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday carried out fresh multistate raids including at the residence of a leading travel firm founder in connection with the Mahadev online betting app money laundering case officials said reported the PTIThe raids are being conducted at premises located in Delhi Mumbai Maharashtra Chandigarh Ahmedabad Gujarat Indore Madhya Pradesh Jaipur Rajasthan Chennai Tamil Nadu and Sambalpur in Odisha the officials informed reported PTIThe premises of the founder and chairman of an online travel booking platform were also searched the officials saidThe case gained media attention years ago when the agency alleged that several senior politicians and bureaucrats from Chhattisgarh were involved in the illegal operation and financial transactions related to the appAccording to PTI searches have been undertaken in this case in the past tooThe Enforcement Directorate has previously claimed that its investigation into the Mahadev Online Betting MOB app revealed links to several top politicians and bureaucrats in Chhattisgarh the home state of key promoters Sourabh Chandrakar and Ravi UppalIt said the MOB app is an umbrella syndicate arranging online platforms for enabling illegal betting websites to enrol new users create user IDS and launder money through a layered web of benami bank accountsNational Herald case ED chargesheets Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi Rahul GandhiThe Enforcement Directorate has filed a charge sheet against Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi Rahul Gandhi and others on charges of money laundering in the National Herald case as per the PTISpecial judge Vishal Gogne examined the charge sheet which was filed on April 9 on the point of cognisance and posted the matter for further proceedings on April 25The charge sheet also names Congress leader Sam Pitroda and Suman Dubey as accused personsThe present prosecution complaint shall next be taken up for consideration on the aspect of cognisance before this court on April 25 2025 when the special counsel for the ED and IO shall also ensure the production of the case diaries for perusal by the court the judge said according to the PTIThe chargesheet was filed under Sections 3 money laundering and 4 punishment for money laundering of Prevention of Money Laundering Act by EDs special public prosecutor N K MattaLet the complaint be checked and registered The Ahlmad court staff shall ensure that the entire filedocuments are properly paginated The ED is directed to file a soft copy of the complaint and documents in readableOCR format by the next date the judge said the news agency reportedThe special judge dealing with the cases of lawmakers also noted the submission of the ED which said it would be moving an application before the district judge for the transfer of the case related to the predicate offence being probed by the CBI for alleged cheating criminal conspiracy and other offences based on which the ED had started its investigation in the present matter from another court to Judge Gognes courtWith PTI inputsatOptionskeyd0ddb8ef8f1a62a8cdd22fac27fc5ea7formatiframeheight90width728params