NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached assets worth Rs 11.14 crore belonging to former India cricketers Suresh Raina and Shikhar Dhawan in connection with a money-laundering investigation linked to the operations of alleged illegal betting platform 1xBet, official sources said on Thursday.
According to sources, the ED has issued a provisional attachment order under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), seizing an immovable property owned by Dhawan valued at Rs 4.5 crore and mutual fund investments of Raina worth Rs 6.64 crore.
The federal agency's probe has found that both the former cricketers "knowingly" entered into endorsement agreements with foreign entities for the promotion of 1xBet and its surrogates.
The ED has questioned the two, apart from other former cricketers such as Yuvraj Singh and Robin Uthappa, actors Sonu Sood, Urvashi Rautela, Mimi Chakraborty (a former Trinamool Congress MP) and Ankush Hazra (Bengali actor), as part of this investigation.
Registered in Curacao, 1xBet is stated by the portal to be a globally-recognised bookmaker with 18 years in the betting industry.
(With PTI Inputs)
