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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has seized luxury vehicles worthy implicit ₹4 crore and frozen movable assets valued astatine astir ₹3 crore during searches astatine 10 premises successful Delhi and Uttar Pradesh linked to YouTuber and societal media influencer Anurag Dwivedi successful a lawsuit of alleged amerciable betting and gambling, the bureau said connected Friday (December 19, 2025).
The searches were carried retired successful Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow and Unnao. “During the searches, 4 high-end cars, incriminating documents, integer devices, and astir ₹20 lakh successful currency were seized. Papers detailing existent property investments made by Mr. Dwivedi successful Dubai done ‘hawala’ channels were besides recovered. Further, movable assets successful the signifier of security policies, fixed deposits, and slope relationship balances amounting to astir ₹3 crore person been frozen,” said an official.
The ED initiated its probe nether the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) based connected a lawsuit registered by the West Bengal Police against definite individuals for allegedly moving amerciable online betting operations. “Investigations revealed that an online betting sheet was being operated from Siliguri by accused persons, namely Sonu Kumar Thakur and Vishal Bhardwaj, utilizing mule slope accounts, Telegram channels, and different integer platforms for conducting online betting and gambling activities,” the bureau said.
According to the ED, its probe besides revealed that “Anurag Dwivedi, a societal media influencer and YouTuber, played an progressive and important relation successful promoting amerciable online betting platforms”.
“He has been recovered to person received proceeds of transgression (PoC) from amerciable betting apps done assorted ‘hawala’ channels and mule accounts. He created and circulated promotional videos for amerciable betting apps, thereby influencing the nationalist astatine ample to stake connected those platforms. Large sums were received successful the slope accounts of his companies and those of his household members without corresponding morganatic commercialized justification,” it said.
The bureau alleged that Mr. Dwivedi had acquired immovable properties extracurricular India, peculiarly successful Dubai, utilizing the PoC generated done the promotion and facilitation of amerciable betting websites.
“It was besides gathered that, aft the procreation of specified proceeds, Mr. Dwivedi has near India and is presently residing successful Dubai. He has been issued aggregate summons truthful far; however, helium has failed to look earlier the ED. The bureau has truthful acold frozen oregon attached movable assets worthy ₹23.7 crore,” the ED said, adding that it had earlier arrested 3 persons successful the lawsuit and filed a prosecution ailment earlier a Kolkata peculiar tribunal connected August 1.
