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ED FINDS ₹331 CR IN ACCOUNT OF BIKE TAXI DRIVER; LINKS TO BETTING APP
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
|November 29, 2025
Investigating a trail of more than ₹331 crore deposited in a bank account over eight months in an illegal betting app-linked money-laundering case, Enforcement Directorate officials landed at the doors of a bike-taxi driver working with a well-known cab aggregator to earn two square meals a day.
The stunned investigators lost no time to detect that this was a Classic case of a “mule” account being used to pump dirty money.
Officials told PTI that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) stumbled upon the Rapido bike driver while investigating the Ixbet online betting-linked money-laundering case.
‘A response from Rapido on the development is awaited.
This story is from the November 29, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Bengaluru.
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