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Anurag with his woman Tamanna
LUCKNOW: A lavish destination wedding hosted by Unnao based YouTuber Anurag Dwivedi -who is nether the scanner of the Enforcement Directorate for alleged money-laundering- has drawn aggravated nationalist and authoritative scrutiny aft details emerged of crores being spent connected luxury celebrations successful Dubai.
This comes arsenic the ED intensifies the probe into his finances. Dwivedi joined Tamanna successful Nov 2025 aboard the Queen Elizabeth-2 cruise successful Dubai, pursuing a 12-year relationship.To people the occasion, helium flew much than 130 guests — galore travelling overseas for the archetypal clip — connected 5 abstracted flights, bearing the afloat outgo of aerial travel, visas, accommodation, meals, and sightseeing. Wedding festivities included haldi and mehendi ceremonies, culminating successful the main wedding connected the cruise’s unfastened deck.
He besides got passports issued to the guests who didn't person one.
Guests were fixed luxury abstraction successful implicit 25 edifice rooms
The guests were fixed luxury accommodation crossed much than 25 edifice rooms, dedicated transport, and sightseeing tours to landmarks specified arsenic the Burj Khalifa and Dubai Creek. According to attendees, spending averaged astir Rs 90,000 to Rs 1 lakh per impermanent lone connected question and lodging.With cruise bookings, décor, logistics, and personage performances added, the wide wedding fund is estimated to person tally into respective crores.
Adding to the high-profile quality of the lawsuit were unrecorded performances by a salient Bollywood playback vocalist and actor.The spectacle has travel nether the scanner amid an ED probe alleging Dwivedi’s links to amerciable betting apps, hawala transactions, and overseas investments. The bureau has conducted searches astatine aggregate locations successful Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, frozen slope accounts, seized cash, and impounded luxury vehicles, including a Lamborghini and a Merc from his Unnao home.
Sources accidental assets — movable and immovable — linked to Dwivedi are estimated astatine astir Rs 20 crore.Investigators allege that Dwivedi utilized his popularity arsenic a phantasy cricket influencer to beforehand amerciable betting platforms, laundering proceeds done a web of firms, household members, mule accounts, and hawala channels. The ED has frozen slope balances, fixed deposits, and security policies worthy astir Rs 3 crore nether the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), and claims documents constituent to existent property investments successful Dubai made via illicit routes. The lawsuit traces backmost to a 2022 FIR by West Bengal Police pursuing a raid successful Siliguri that uncovered an organised betting cognition linked to online platforms utilized during large cricket tournaments.Subsequent fund-trail investigation allegedly led investigators to accounts connected to Dwivedi and his associates. According to the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Dwivedi is linked to aggregate firms, including Fantwear Fashion, RP Greens India, DSD Sports and Media, and Bhumideva Projects.On societal media, wherever helium has implicit 2.3 cardinal followers, Dwivedi has projected himself arsenic the “face of phantasy cricket,” often emphasising his middle-class roots. However, investigators accidental his manner — luxury cars, overseas properties, and a cruise wedding — belies those claims.The ED's Kolkata Zonal Office, has carried retired extended hunt operations astatine 10 premises successful Lucknow, Unnao, and Delhi linked to the YouTuber and societal media influencer Anurag Dwivedi successful transportation with an amerciable online betting and gambling case.
The bureau recovered incriminating documents, integer devices, and astir Rs 20 lakh successful cash.According to the ED, the scrutiny of the seized documents revealed that Dwivedi made existent property investments successful Dubai done hawala channels.The probe was initiated connected the ground of an FIR registered by the West Bengal Police, which pertained to the cognition of an amerciable online betting racket. During the probe, it emerged that accused Sonu Kumar Thakur and Vishal Bhardwaj were moving an online betting sheet from Siliguri, utilizing mule slope accounts, Telegram channels, and different integer platforms to behaviour online betting and gambling activities.The ED’s probe further revealed that Anurag Dwivedi played a important relation successful promoting amerciable online betting platforms. The bureau alleges that helium received proceeds of transgression generated from amerciable betting apps done aggregate hawala channels and mule accounts. According to the ED, aft generating income from the promotion and facilitation of amerciable betting websites, Dwivedi near India and is presently residing successful Dubai. He has been issued aggregate summons successful the lawsuit but has failed to look earlier the bureau truthful far.
