Raipur/New Delhi, Nov 13 The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday arrested Saurabh Chandrakar, the main accused in the Mahadev betting app cheating case and the promoter of the app, under the anti-money laundering law in Chhattisgarh’s capital, Raipur, officials said.
Chandrakar was remanded in the agency’s custody till November 19 by a special court set up under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they said.
A special CBI court in Raipur had, on November 12, sent Chandrakar, in his 30s, to judicial custody till November 19 after he was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
Chandrakar was brought to Delhi from Oman on November 1 after a court there allowed his extradition to India in a money-laundering case being investigated by the ED.
The agency said the Mahadev app, also called the Mahadev Online Book (MOB), began operations in 2019-20. Its user base grew “sharply” during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and continued to expand.
The app, which runs through thousands of panels, allegedly generated proceeds of crime worth Rs 80,000 crore since 2019.
(PTI News)
