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NEW DELHI: With immoderate celebrities, including erstwhile cricketers and filmstars, not appearing contempt summonses being issued to them successful transportation with alleged laundering of amerciable proceeds of 1xBet online betting platform, ED is considering attaching properties of those linked to cases successful which wealth trails person been established.ED apt to sanction celebrities arsenic accused for endorsing amerciable betting ED is besides apt to soon record a chargesheet successful the case, wherein these celebrities whitethorn besides beryllium named arsenic accused for endorsing amerciable activities, sources said. On Sept 24, histrion Sonu Sood had appeared earlier ED astatine its office for questioning successful transportation with his alleged relation with the 1xBet online betting syndicate. Earlier, cricketers Suresh Raina, Shikhar Dhawan, Robin Utthappa and Yuvraj Singh, and histrion and ex-TMC MP Mimi Chakraborty had appeared earlier the bureau and recorded their statements regarding fees received for endorsing amerciable betting activities.
Actor Urvashi Rautela, who missed the summons issued to her, has been asked to look for questioning successful the aforesaid case. The bureau is probing the promoters and associates of 1xBet for illegally moving a betting and gambling racket successful the state and siphoning the proceeds of transgression retired of India. Attachment of assets successful overseas countries is besides apt wherever the bureau has recovered trails of proceeds of crime. Earlier, successful the lawsuit of Fairplay, different amerciable betting app, the enforcement bureau had attached assets worthy implicit Rs 307 crore successful Dubai, including land, villas and slope balances, linked to the accused.
Fairplay was allegedly progressive successful amerciable broadcast of cricket matches, too online gambling. Among respective FIRs registered against Fairplay, 1 by Viacom18 Media Pvt Ltd successful Mumbai accused the betting app of causing nonaccomplishment of gross of much than Rs 100 crore by illegally broadcasting cricket matches.
