Bengaluru, Feb 23 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) Bengaluru Zonal Office filed an additional charge sheet against other accused persons in the Rs 2,300 crore illegal online betting scam involving Congress MLA K.C. Veerendra aka Pappi, an official statement from ED said on Monday. The ED in a statement said: “A supplementary charge sheet against Pruthvi N Raj, K.C. Thippeswamy, Fonepaisa Payment Solutions Private Limited, Gulshan Khattar, Puppy’s Tours and Travels LLP, Arjun Nagabhushan…
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Bengaluru, Feb 18 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED), Bengaluru Zonal Office, has provisionally attached movable properties — balance in the foreign bank accounts, maintained in the USA and Singapore, amounting to USD 55.69 Million (Rs 505 crore), held in the names of overseas shell companies operated and controlled by one Paavan Nanda and Saumya Singh Rathore, under Public Money Laundering Act (PMLA), an official statement said on Wednesday. The company is accused of using artificial or a…
Bengaluru, Feb 14 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Bengaluru Zonal Office, has provisionally attached 11 immovable properties belonging to a couple, Rajesh V.R. and Nagavalli B.S., and their associated entities, with a total market value of Rs 16.95 crore, in connection with a cooperative society fraud case.According to an official statement issued by the ED on Saturday, the attached properties were allegedly acquired using proceeds of crime generated through fraudulent activities lin…
Bengaluru, Jan 28 (IANS) In a major development, the Special Court for MLAs/MPs in Bengaluru on Wednesday accepted the closure report filed by the Karnataka Lokayukta in connection with the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) scam. The development is seen as a shot in the arm for Chief Minister Siddaramaiah amid the leadership tussle in the state.The court gave relief to the first accused in the case, CM Siddaramaiah, the second accused, his wife B.M. Parvati, the third accused, his brothe…
Bengaluru, Jan 24 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Bengaluru Zonal Office, has provisionally attached three immovable properties — one plot and two flats — having a market value of Rs 19.46 crore under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, belonging to trustees of the BMS Educational Trust, the agency said in an official statement on Saturday.The attachment is part of the ED’s probe into the alleged seat-blocking scam involving admissions to engine…
Bengaluru, Jan 24 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Bengaluru Zonal Office, has provisionally attached immovable properties worth Rs 1.53 crore under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, in connection with the Police Sub-Inspector (PSI) recruitment scam involving former ADGP Amrit Paul and others, the agency said in an official statement on Saturday.The attached assets include residential properties belonging to Amrit Paul, former Additional Director G…
Bengaluru, Jan 1 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Bengaluru Zonal Office, has frozen Proceeds of Crime (PoC) worth approximately Rs 192 crore held by ZO Games Pvt Ltd, a wholly-owned Indian subsidiary of WinZo Pvt Ltd, in connection with an online real money gaming scam.The official statement released by the ED, Bengaluru Zonal Office stated on Thursday, “The ED has conducted a search operation at the office premises of the accounting firm for Winzo Pvt Limited under Section 17 of the…
Bengaluru, Dec 22 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) Bengaluru Zonal Office has conducted search operations late last week under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, at 21 premises spread across Karnataka, Maharashtra and Delhi at the residential and office premises of the accused persons and their associates under PMLA in the case of “4th Bloc Consultants and others” in connection with large scale organised financial fraud involving crypto currency-based investment platfo…