Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor has mailed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday, seeking time to appear. Let us tell you that summons was issued by Ranbir Kapoor’s ED in the Mahadev Betting App case. He was asked to appear before the ED on October 6. It is being told that the investigating agency suspects that Ranbir Kapoor has taken a huge amount of money to promote Mahadev App. For this the actor has been called for questioning.
However, according to a report in News18, Ranbir has asked for two weeks’ time from the ED. He has to appear before the ED branch in Raipur. Let us tell you that Ranbir is accused of promoting Saurabh Chandrakar’s betting app. ED says that for this, cash payment was made to Ranbir through Hawala. ED wants to know from the actor that since when has he been promoting it? Who contacted for this and in which mode the payment was received.
Also sources say that four people have already been arrested in connection with the case. Ranbir was asked to appear before the ED on Friday, October 6 for questioning. Another source clarified that Ranbir is not being called as an accused. Sources say that Ranbir Kapoor has been called to understand the transactions of the betting business. He has not been called as an accused at this point. It is important to interrogate him to know his information about the sources of money received from him.
Sources say that Ranbir Kapoor may not be a part of the conspiracy but it is very important to understand the scam. On the other hand, the officers investigating the betting app case said that the Enforcement Directorate will again send summons to actor Ranbir Kapoor. If he does not join the interrogation even after issuing summons twice, then the ED team can take Ranbir Kapoor into custody for questioning.
According to ED, the company’s promoters Saurabh Chandrashekhar and Ravi Uppal were operating it from Dubai. He is a resident of Bhilai, Chhattisgarh. ED alleged that they used online book betting applications to register new users. They used to launder money from multi-level benami bank accounts by creating IDs.
Officials said that they used to give business rights to the branches opened through franchise to their experts on the profit ratio of 70-30. Hawala was used extensively to send the money earned from betting to other countries. A large amount of cash was used to promote betting websites in India. It is being told that ED is investigating the role of 14 to 15 other celebrities in the case and they will also be called for questioning soon.
