Nov 29, 2024 01:48 PM IST
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday carried out searches on the residences of a number of people, together with businessman Raj Kundra, husband of Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty. Round 15 areas in Mumbai and Uttar Pradesh have been being searched.
The search operations are reportedly linked to a money-laundering investigation in regards to the allegations surrounding the manufacturing and distribution of pornographic content material by means of cell purposes.
The ED’s inquiry stems from a case initiated by the Mumbai police towards Kundra in 2021 in reference to the alleged porn manufacturing.
For the unversed, Raj Kundra, who was beforehand arrested by the Mumbai Crime Department in July 2021 underneath numerous sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Info Know-how Act, later secured bail from a metropolis court docket.
Different cash laundering case towards Raj Kundra
That is the second cash laundering case towards Kundra. Early this 12 months, the ED had connected belongings price ₹98 crore of Kundra and Shetty in a cryptocurrency case.
The couple, nevertheless, obtained aid from the Bombay Excessive Court docket towards this ED attachment order.
The businessman had instructed an area Mumbai court docket in 2021 that there was not even an iota of proof with the prosecution (Mumbai Police) that might join the app ‘Hotshots’, used within the alleged porn movies racket, with an offence underneath the regulation.
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