A probe report provided by the ED has led the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) in Chhattisgarh to file a complaint against former chief minister Bhupesh Baghel and others in the suspected Mahadev online betting scam, officials said on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which has been looking into the money laundering case connected to the Mahadev app for more than a year, has previously claimed that its investigation has revealed the involvement of several high-ranking officials and politicians from Chhattisgarh, the state from which the two major app promoters are originally.
The ED estimates that around Rs 6,000 crore was made from this crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ED has been investigating the case and based on its report submitted to the state’s Economic Offences Wing\/Anti-Corruption Bureau, the FIR was registered against Baghel and others at the EOW police station here on March 4, a high-ranking EOW officer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The senior Congress leader Baghel added that the FIR names 14 other people as suspects in addition to app promoters Ravi Uppal, Saurabh Chandrakar, Shubham Soni, and Anil Kumar Agrawal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A number of unnamed private people, police officers, bureaucrats, and officers on special duty (OSDs) have also been accused in the case but have not been given names, the officer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The official said that the case has been filed under several sections of the Indian Penal Code, such as 120B (criminal conspiracy), 420 (cheating), and 471 (using a forged document as authentic), as well as the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act, 2018.
The Mahadev Book App promoters Uppal, Chandrakar, Soni, and Agrawal built the platform for live online betting and bet via Whatsapp, Facebook, Telegram, and other social media platforms, according to the FIR, which cited the ED’s report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The promoters established various platforms and used panel operators and branch operators to carry out illicit online betting activities. It was claimed that they divided the remaining funds between panel operators and branch operators, keeping between 70 and 80 percent of the illegal profits for themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 2020 COVID-19 epidemic lockdown resulted in the promoters and panel operators earning around Rs 450 crore per month via the online betting app, according to the FIR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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