West Bengal : Over Rs 17 crore cash recovered from Aamir Khan’s house, ED raided

Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials have recovered over Rs 17 crore cash in raids at the house of a businessman Aamir Khan in Kolkata. 10 trunk mills from the house, out of which 5 trunks were stuffed with 200-500 and 2000 notes. The raid was done from the residence of businessman Aamir Khan in Garden Reach. The raids by the investigating agency began on Saturday morning and the cash counting continued till late in the night. The ED team was accompanied by bank officials and central forces. Most of the notes in the pile were of Rs 500, followed by Rs 2,000 and Rs 200 notes. The ED raid was conducted under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002. A First Information Report (FIR) was filed against Aamir Khan and others at the Park Street Police Station in Kolkata on February 15 last year on the basis of a complaint filed by Federal Bank officials in the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s court. ) on the basis of which the case was registered.

Cheating was done through gaming application

The probe agency said, “Aamir Khan launched a mobile gaming application called e-nuggets, which was designed to commit fraud. Before this app, users were rewarded with commission and then cash was sent to their wallet. When the users were convinced, they started investing money through this gaming application to win more money.”

Earned crores of rupees like this

The probe agency said that after collecting a significant amount of money through the mobile gaming app after users put in money, the withdrawals from the app were suddenly stopped, on the pretext that there was a system up-gradation, an investigation being conducted by law enforcement agencies. Is. After this, all the data including all the information from the profile was deleted from the app server. Then the users understood its trick that fraud has been done.

Earlier on Saturday, the central agency had conducted a search operation at six places in Kolkata in connection with the investigation related to the mobile gaming application. The ED said that during the search operation it was noticed that the entities associated with the case were using fake accounts and had earned crores of rupees by duping the users.