Suresh Raina to appear before ED on Aug 13 in illegal betting app case
New Delhi, Aug 12 (PTI): Former India cricketer Suresh Raina is expected to appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) here on Wednesday for questioning in an alleged illegal betting app-linked money laundering case, official sources said.
Once he deposes, the federal probe agency is expected to record his statements under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
Raina (38) has been asked to depose before the agency on August 13 for questioning in an illegal betting case linked to an app named 1xBet, the sources said.
The former India cricketer is understood to have been linked to the app through certain endorsements. The ED officials are expected to understand his links with this app during the questioning.
The agency is probing multiple such cases involving illegal betting apps that are alleged to have duped numerous people and investors worth crores of rupees or have evaded a huge amount of taxes.
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PM plays football with boys, girls in Sikkim
Gangtok (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a two-day tour of Sikkim, played football with some boys and girls here on Tuesday morning, and described the soccer session as "energising".
Modi shared on social media a few photographs in which he is seen playing soccer with youngsters.
"Nothing like playing some football with my young friends in Sikkim on a lovely Gangtok morning! Clearly, an energising football session with these youngsters!" the PM said on X.
Modi also took a photograph with the players, with the Lok Bhawan building seen in the background.
During the day, the PM will attend the closing ceremony of 50 years of Sikkim's statehood and launch projects worth Rs 4,000 crore.
