Big crackdown on online gaming firms as Gamezkraft founders land in ED custody
The ED has arrested three Gamezkraft founders after searches in Karnataka and NCR as scrutiny intensifies on online money gaming platforms under the new gaming law.
The ED has arrested three Gamezkraft founders after searches in Karnataka and NCR as scrutiny intensifies on online money gaming platforms under the new gaming law.
Sushil Mohta and his son Saket Mohta, promoters of the Merlin Group, along with others, are accused of fraud, forgery, organised criminal activity, and criminal conspiracy.
According to the ED, the company and its promoters are suspected of creating a false chain of land ownership using forged documents. These documents were allegedly used to claim control over land, leading to accusations of land grabbing.
A Bench led by Justice Surya Kant, along with Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi, issued notice to the ED on Soren’s petition seeking quashing of the criminal complaint filed against him.
The ED stated that an amount higher than the contract value was deposited in Jayasurya’s account and alleged that the money constituted proceeds of crime generated through fraud by the company’s owners.
The complaint names Naresh Kumar alias Naresh Gulia, Attiul Rehman Mir, Ajay Kumar alias Ajay Kumar Choudhary and Ramesh alias Ramesh Gulia as accused under the provisions of the PMLA, 2002.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached a United Kingdom-based high-value property located near Buckingham Palace in a Rs 1,400 crore bank fraud case, the agency said on Wednesday.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) said on Friday that it had filed two supplementary prosecution complaints in two separate cases linked to money laundering in West Bengal at a special court of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) at Kolkata, one on December 12 and the other on December 8.
Sources, in fact, say that the Enforcement Directorate may soon get a stay on the court order and may not have to release the multi-crore National Herald property it had seized.
Already under the scanner of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), senior Tamil Nadu Minister and DMK veteran KN Nehru is once again facing the central agency’s heat in yet another alleged Rs 1,020 crore scam pertaining to tender manipulation in the Municipal and Water Administration (MWAS) Department.
