The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday conducted searches in Mumbai, Nagpur, Bhopal and the national Capital in connection with the ongoing probe into the multi-crore betting and money laundering case in the Indian Premier league (IPl).
Separate teams of ED sleuths fanned out to these cities and began searches at more than 10 locations.
The searches were conducted by the Ahmedabad zonal office of the agency which is probing instances of multi-crore bets being placed in various editions of the IPl in the country.
The agency had earlier conducted similar searches, but Tuesday’s action comes after new leads were gathered from the investigation conducted so far.
The agency gathered new addresses and details about the clandestine hideouts used by bookies to place bets in the glamorous T-20 cricket extravaganza after interrogation of some of the Delhi and Mumbai based bookies, the sources said.
Close to 50 ED investigators besides those from the local police were involved in the searches carried out under the Prevention of Money laundering Act (PMlA).
The case was busted by ED in March when its Ahmedabad unit had arrested some bookies from a farmhouse on the outskirts of Vadodara city in Gujarat. later, the agency had arrested 16 such bookies, including two from Delhi, in connection with the illegal betting racket. The alleged racket is suspected to be worth between Rs 1,000-Rs 2,500 crore.