The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday said it seized over Rs 7 crore during raids in Kolkata as part of money-laundering probe against the promoters of an alleged fraud mobile gaming app.
“ED has been carrying out search operations under the provisions of the PMLA, 2002 (on 10.09.2022) at 06 premises in Kolkata, in respect to an investigation relating to the Mobile Gaming Application. Huge cash (More than Rs 7 Crore) has been found at the premises.”
The raids were conducted at six offices of the gaming app ‘E-Nuggets’ and its promoter identified as Aamir Khan, the agency said in a statement.
The probe was initiated based on an FIR filed by the Kolkata Police against the company and its promoters in February 2021.
The ED is also probing whether the operators of the app had links with other “Chinese controlled” apps that had been issuing loans at inflated rates to vulnerable people. The government initiated a crackdown against illegal Chinese loan apps after some borrowers committed suicide due to harassment by collection agents of these illegal lenders.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman held a meeting with various agencies to deal prepare an action plan to deal with the menace.
