New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) will be looking at three IPL matches after making two arrests on Friday over betting charges according to the report published in Indian Express newspaper on Saturday.
Raids were taken place in Delhi, Mumbai and Jaipur on Friday. The ED stated that they have got leads of big bookies who haven't got caught and they feel certain matches in this season's IPL have been fixed.
The Ahmedabad unit of ED arrested two bookies from New Delhi on Friday and both of them have been identified. Another suspect is from Thane in Maharashtra and the ED has notified summons after the suspect admitted himself to the hospital on basis of health issues.
In Jaipur two people evaded arrest. The suspect from Thane has been asked by the ED to appear in front of them in Ahmedabad on Monday.
The findings of ED aren't yet known to the IPL body or the BCCI, according to the report.
Several documents and links have been found by the ED and that has served as clues in terms of the arrests made. A network of betting is also being investigated.
Earlier, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had unearthed a massive betting and money laundering racket after a series of raid in several cities across India.
Five bookies had been arrested under Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). Soon after that two men arrested by the Enforcement Directorate for running a hawala racket and betting syndicate related to IPL, has been taken by the agency to Ahmedabad, Gujarat, for investigation.
The raids were expected to continue in the next few days and the ED have started to get to the base of it.
ED officials believe that many matches of this season of the IPL could also have been fixed, according to the reports.
ED sources had also indicated that bets ranging from Rs 600 to 800 crore were being placed on every match in the ongoing season of the IPL.
Interestingly, invoking PMLA Act in all the arrests, the ED has ensured that the accused don’t get out on bail, as per the report.
(With Agency inputs)
