ED seizes ₹8.8 crore in money-laundering case against 'lottery king' Santiago Martin
The Hindu
Enforcement Directorate seizes ₹8.8 crore from 'lottery king' Santiago Martin in money-laundering case, continuing extensive searches.
The Enforcement Directorate on Friday (November 15, 2024) seized ₹8.8 crore in cash during searches in a money-laundering case against Chennai-based 'lottery king' Santiago Martin, officials said.
Mr. Martin was the single biggest donor to political parties with over ₹1,300 crore in the now-scrapped electoral bonds.
The searches that were launched on Thursday continued for the second day in multiple States.
About ₹8.8 crore in cash has been seized from the corporate office of Mr. Martin on Friday. The cash is the mostly in the denomination of ₹500, the official said.
The location of the office was not known.
The fresh ED searches came about after the Madras High Court recently allowed the federal agency to proceed against Mr. Martin as the Tamil Nadu Police had decided to close the predicate or primary FIR against him and a few others and a lower court accepted this police plea.
At least 20 premises linked to Martin and associates in Chennai and Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, Faridabad in Haryana, Ludhiana in Punjab and Kolkata in West Bengal were being searched as part of a "comprehensive" action against his business empire.
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