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By Divyesh Singh: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) probing a money laundering case against international cricket bookie Anil Jaisinghani has identified various properties worth over Rs 100 crores linked to Jaisinghani. Sources said that most of the properties are in the form of hotels, flats, shops, land parcels and other immovable properties.
Several bank accounts belonging to Jaisinghani, his family members, relatives and close aides have also been identified where unaccounted money in crores has been deposited.
One of the top bookies involved in cricket betting, Jaisinghani a resident of Ulhasnagar in Thane, Maharashtra, was wanted by ED since 2015 in a money laundering case related to betting of thousands of crores in cricketing tournaments like IPL and few others. The agency is also looking for other bookies who are part of Jaisinghani’s network.
The Ahmedabad High Court granted custody of Jaisinghani to ED last week. He is presently being interrogated regarding his betting ring, members and network handling the laundering of such huge amount of cash generated during cricket tournaments.
The network of Jaisinghani involved various other influential bookies from Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore and Dubai. Names of the bookies had surfaced when ED’s Ahmedabad zone started investigating Rs 2000 cr IPL betting case and money laundering of Rs 5000 crores involving laundered Afroz Fatta.
Fatta allegedly had links with the bookies that helped launder the betting money to Dubai and from Dubai to India in thousands of crores. The then ED Joint Director JP Singh was heading investigation but later Singh and his junior were booked by CBI in a bribery case and arrested.
CBI had also arrested bookies Sonu Jalan and Bimal Agarwal from Mumbai in the case. Singh’s colleagues had then claimed that he had been framed in the bribery case by some of the bookies. Jaisinghani remained at large and an Ahmedabad court had also issued non bailable warrant against him.
Jaisinghani and his daughter were last month arrested by Mumbai police in a case of extortion and blackmailing filed by Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis’s wife Amruta Fadnavis at Malabar hill police station.
According to the complaint, Jainsighani’s daughter Aniksha, posing as a designer, befriended Amruta Fadnavis. She on multiple occasions requested Amruta Fadnavis to help her close the cases against her father and then also offered bribe of Rs 1 crore.
She had also come with a plan where she told Amruta Fadnavis that her father knew about bookie operations and they could conduct raids on them and this would help make money.
Amruta then blocked Anishka from communication, after which she received edited videos from unknown numbers where Anishka was seen giving her gifts, filling cash in bags and then handing over same bag to Amruta Fadnavis’s staff.
The unknown, suspected to be operated by Jaisinghani, also sent messages that they knew various other party leaders and could send the videos to them. Following this the complaint was made to police.
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