The Enforcement Directorate Friday said it has frozen 93 bank accounts and seized Rs 3.44 crore as part of a money laundering investigation linked to an illegal online betting case in Gujarat.
Enforcement Directorate (ED) carried out a search of five bank accounts held at IDFC First Bank, Surat under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002 on Thursday related to the illegal betting activities carried out through fake dummy bank accounts, by Harish alias Kamlesh Jariwala and others.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has freezed multiple bank accounts and seized Rs 3.44 crore lying in them in a case related to illegal betting carried out using fake accounts by a person named Harish alias Kamlesh Jariwala and others in Surat .
The action was taken under the criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) after the federal agency on Thursday searched five accounts held at an IDFC First Bank branch in Surat.