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Mahadev app kingpin held in UAE, faces extradition | India News – Times of India
The arrest of Chandrakar, who was under house arrest in Dubai after a notice ordered by ED, marks a major twist in the investigation into the Rs 6,000-crore scam that cheated thousands and is believed to have contributed to the crimes of the Congress. defeat in the parliamentary elections in Chhattisgarh last November.
Sources said that ED will soon move the Dubai court for Chandrakar’s extradition.
The agency will share with UAE authorities details of financial transactions related to the illegal gambling scam carried out from the UAE. Uppal was arrested by Dubai police in December last year.
Senior bureaucrats, police officers and political figures in the then Bhupesh Baghel-led regime in Raipur have been accused of irregularities.
It is not clear if the agency will bring him to India anytime soon.
Uppal is yet to be extradited, will ED get its hands on Sourabh soon?
The agency will share with UAE authorities details of financial transactions related to the illegal gambling scam carried out from the UAE. Ravi Uppal was arrested by Dubai police in December last year.
Senior bureaucrats, police officers and political figures in the then Bhupesh Baghel-led regime in Raipur have been accused of irregularities. ED had earlier said in a statement that it was investigating alleged bribe payments of over Rs 500 crore involving former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel.
While the arrest of Sourabh Chandrakar by UAE police is a success for ED’s dogged pursuit of him and Uppal, it is not clear whether the agency will get him to India anytime soon. It has failed to extradite Uppal even though he was arrested almost a year ago.
On November 2 last year, just weeks before the Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, ED had arrested courier Asim Das with Rs 5 crore cash in Raipur. The agency then claimed that when questioned, the courier confessed that the money was to be delivered to politician ‘Baghel’ and had been sent by post. Mahadev App promoters Chandrakar & Uppal.
“From the interrogation of Asim Das, and forensic examination of the phone recovered from him, and examination of an email sent by Shubam Soni (one of the high-ranking accused of the Mahadev network), many surprising allegations have emerged has come, namely that regular payments have been made in the past and so far around Rs 508 crore has been paid by app promoters of Mahadev to Bhupesh Baghel. This is a subject of investigation,” ED had said in a press release issued on November 3 after Das’ arrest.
Chandrakar was also in news for his grand wedding celebrations in the UAE, where the agency claimed he spent nearly Rs 200 crore on events that featured performances by Bollywood stars.
