What: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is investigating 17 celebrities, including Bollywood actors and singers, for attending a lavish Dubai wedding allegedly funded by an online betting platform. The ED is also looking into allegations that the platform coordinated with a Pakistan-based associate to launch a betting app there. The agency has seized and frozen assets worth ₹417 crore ($55.8 million) linked to the platform. The investigation has revealed that cash was delivered through hawala channels and that private jets were hired for the wedding.
Furthermore: “Around 17 celebrities, including noted Bollywood actors, singers and comedians, are under the scanner of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for having attended the lavish Dubai wedding of Sourabh Chandrakar, the co-promoter of Mahadev Online Book (MOB) app which allegedly conducts online betting.
We wonder: Why so many Bollywood celebrities are attracted to the nefarious acts of the underworld more so when they know that in this ‘no secrets’ open world of social media everything gets spotlighted?
