Mahadev Book Betting Case: The ED has sent notices to many big names of Bollywood in the Mahadev online gaming app money laundering case. So far, the ED has arrested four people in this case, including two brothers Sunil Damani, Anil Dammani, Chhattisgarh Police ASI Chandrabhushan Verma and Satish Chandrakar. Saurabh Chandrakar and Ravi Uppal, residents of Bhilai in Chhattisgarh, operate the Mahadev betting app in Dubai. Transactions worth thousands of crores of rupees were done. For this, call centers were opened in different big cities in Malaysia, Thailand, India, UAE, through which online betting was done by creating different subsidiary apps.
How to operate from India?
Now let’s explain to you how Saurabh Chandrakar and Ravi Uppal were operating the Mahadev betting app in India by creating a nexus of police, bureaucrats and politicians sitting in the UAE. In fact, about 30 call centers of Mahadev Book App were opened in big cities of many different states including Chhattisgarh in India. These call centers were being run in a very vicious manner by forming a chain. Saurabh was operating in India with the help of Anil Dammani and Sunil Dammani, two very close to Chandrakar and Ravi Uppal.
महादेव ऐप घोटाला: ईडी के सामने पेश नहीं होंगे रणबीर कपूर! जानिए कितने दिन का मांगा समय
What is the money trail of this game of betting?
First, with the help of Anil Dammani and Sunil Dammani, a large number of anonymous bank accounts were opened through KYC. The betting app syndicate was being run in connivance with main promoters Saurabh Chandrakar, Ravi Uppal and panel operator (call centre operator). Police, politicians and bureaucrats were also given a stake to run this syndicate. Anil Dammani’s role in this syndicate is not only running the online betting app, but also using the money coming through hawala on a large scale in the betting app as well as the police, politicians and bureaucrats who used to benefit from this app. Money was also to be delivered to them, so that no one could point fingers at them.
Money was sent through hawala
The money was then transferred to Chandra Bhushan Verma, an ASI of Chhattisgarh Police, who was responsible for bribing police officers, bureaucrats and people with political influence in the Chhattisgarh Police. This money was sent through hawala to a jeweler in Sadar Bazar, Raipur. During interrogation, Anil Dammani said that in the last two-three years, he along with his brother Sunil had made transactions of Rs 60 to 65 crore through hawala at the behest of Ravi Uppal, out of which he got Rs 6 lakh.
Anil Dammani also told that these two also run a hawala business through their jewellery shop. Their CDR revealed that these two brothers Anil and Sunil were in constant touch with Ravi Uppal sitting in the UAE. ASI Chandra Bhushan Verma had political connections.
महादेव बेटिंग ऐप: एक्शन में ED, मुंबई में प्रोडक्शन हाउस पर ईडी का छापा, बॉलीवुड हस्तियों से पूछताछ
Satish Chandrakar had a stake
Satish Chandrakar, who was arrested by the ED in this case, was also running four call centers of Mahadev app, in which he had a 5 percent stake and was also responsible for overseeing illegal money transactions. Investigation has also revealed that Satish Chandrakar also had links with a well-known gangster and drug don Tapan Sarkar, who is on the run in this case.
Bollywood connection of Mahadev Betting App?
In February this year, there was a wedding of Saurabh Chandrakar, the promoter of Mahadev online gaming app in Dubai, in which about 17 Bollywood celebrities were invited by a chartered plane.
Also, actor Ranbir Kapoor is accused of promoting a supporting app of Mahadev online betting app. This is the reason why all those artists who were involved in the performance there were included in the purview of the investigation.
