The Enforcement Directorate (ED) seized an online gaming platform on May 29 at seven places in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore and seized assets of Rs 39 lakh in cash of Rs 1.5 crore in cash and froz assets of an online gaming platform and a bank’s money laundering investigation.
The investigation included a former officer of Punjab and Sindh Bank, Bedeshu Sekhar Mishra, his colleague and a prominent management of the gaming platform, a spokesman of the ED.
According to the ED, it seizes Rs 39 lakh cash, as well as with a variety of materials, including digital evidence, several mobile phones and SIM cards, which are being used for online gaming. The spokesman said, “During the search proceedings, the ED has frozen a total amount of Rs 1.5 crore in 48 mule accounts being used by gaming platforms.”
The ED started an investigation against Mishra and others on the basis of an FIR registered by the CBI. “Investigation has revealed that Mishra has allegedly misused his official status for cheating by conducting unauthorized transactions by breaking 46 fixed deposits of several customers by breaking 46 fixed deposit accounts of several customers while being deployed as an officer at Khalsa College Branch, Punjab and Sindh Bank in the North Complex.
“The investigation has revealed that it has shifted the income of crime for about Rs 24 crore on online gaming platforms. These online gaming companies were transferred by the accused through various mule accounts organized by online platform owners. The ED has attacked Rs 2.56 crore of Rs 2.56 crore and temporarily attached to its allies.”
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