Performing at a big fat wedding of a juice bar owner turned fraudster lands Bollywood celebs in ED radar
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ October 6,2023
The Enforcement Directorate has summoned bollywood ‘A’ stars for attending, performing in a fraudster Sourabh Chandrakar marriage at Ras Al-Khaimah, UAE. Sourabh Chandrakar is a promoter of Mahadev gaming app.
As per available information Enforcement Directorate has summoned bollywood star Ranbir Kapoor,Shardha Kapoor comedian Kapil Sharma, actors Huma Qureshi and Hina Khan for questioning on different dates in connection with its money laundering probe linked to the Mahadev betting app case.
The economic intelligence agency had already summoned Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor for questioning on October 6 at its regional office in Raipur. He is understood to have sought about two weeks to appear.
Several Bollywood stars, who attended or performed at Chandrakar’s wedding in February this year and the company’s success party in September last year, are under the ED scanner. Media reports claim that these stars allegedly accepted a huge amount of cash as payment for attending or performing at the wedding.
What is mahadev gaming app?
The Mahadev gaming app allows its users to gamble on various games such as poker, card games, chance games, badminton, tennis, football, and cricket. The investigation by ED came to light after a lavish wedding in UAE in February this year.
The company promoted by Sourabh Chandrakar and Ravi Uppal organised a lavish wedding in the United Arab Emirates in which around Rs 200 crore was paid in cash.
At his wedding held in Ras Al-Khaimah, Sourabh Chandrakar hired private jets to ferry family members from Nagpur to the UAE and paid celebrities from the Indian film industry to perform.
According to ED officials , promoter Chandrakar, who hails from Bhilai, Chhattisgarh allegedly used the online book betting application Mahadev to become billionaire.
Before running a million dollars umpire gambling business, Chandrakar ran a juice shop in Nehru Nagar in Bhillai while Uppal owned a tire before both of them became addicted to gambling, NDTV reported citing investigators.
Both of them went to Dubai and met a Sheikh and a Pakistani national. After that, the duo set up the Mahadev online betting app.
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