Mahadev betting app promoter Sourabh Chandrakar held in Dubai

Sourabh Chandrakar, one of the promoters of the Mahadev online betting app, has been put under “house detention” in Dubai while Indian probe agencies, including ED, have been “alerted” and are working through diplomatic channels to get him deported, official sources said on Wednesday.

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The Enforcement Directorate may also file a fresh charge sheet in this multicrore money laundering case soon, they said. The development comes weeks after Ravi Uppal, another promoter of the betting and gaming app, was detained by local authorities in Dubai on a red notice (RN) issued by Interpol at the behest of the ED.

The sources said Chandrakar’s location in Dubai has been intimated to the federal agency and he has been put under “house detention”.

Indian agencies are working, through diplomatic channels, to secure the deportation or extradition of the two who are vital to the money laundering and police investigation into the alleged illegal activities of the ‘Mahadev Book Online’ app that also have political links in Chhattisgarh and elsewhere, the sources said.