ASSETS of former Indian cricketers Yuvraj Singh and Robin Uthappa apart from that of ex TMC MP Mimi Chakraborty and actor Sonu Sood have been attached by the ED in an “illegal” betting app linked money laundering case estimated to be worth more than Rs 1,000 crore, official sources said Friday.

 

The properties of actor Neha Sharma, mother of model Urvashi Rautela and Bengali actor Ankush Hazra have also been attached after the federal probe agency issued a provisional order the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), according to the sources. These include assets worth about Rs 1 crore of Sood, Rs 59 lakh of Chakraborty, Rs 2.5 crore of Yuvraj Singh, Rs 1.26 crore of Sharma, Rs 8.26 lakh of Uthappa, Rs 47 lakh of Hazra and Rs 2.02 crore of Rautela’s mother, the sources said. All these celebrities were questioned by the ED in the past and these assets have been categorised as the “proceeds of crime” (illicit money under the PMLA) of the alleged illegal betting app named 1xbet registered in Curacao. The agency had sometime ago attached assets worth Rs 11.14 crore of former cricketers Shikhar Dhawan and Suresh Raina as part of this investigation.

 

 

 

THE Enforcement Directorate has filed a fresh chargesheet against an online gaming app that was being operated by Chinese nationals in India during the COVID pandemic years, leading to “fraudulent” generation of Rs 400 crore from the players. The first prosecution complaint (chargesheet) against the application named ‘Fiewin’ was filed by the federal probe agency in October 2024, before PMLA court located in Kolkata. The agency had arrested three persons and attached assets worth Rs 26 crore in the past.