Rajasthan cops seize Rs 47 lakh from arrested bookie

JAIPUR: A day after Rajasthan ATS arrested 14 people in the IPL betting racket, cops recovered Rs 47 lakh from one of the accused’s house in Jaipur.
ATS had simultaneously raided five locations in three states on Sunday evening and arrested seven bookies from Cyberabad in Telangana while the remaining from Jaipur.
In Delhi and Nagaur, the accused managed to escape the cops leaving their instruments behind. Police also recovered multiple mobile phones and latops which were being used for illegal betting. The arrested persons will be brought from Telangana to Jaipur by road once transportation is arranged.
The raids were conducted after officials received information that persons from Rajasthan were in other states as bookies betting on the IPL matches which are currently under way in United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Explaining the modus operandi of the bookies, Ashok Rathore, ADG (ATS and SOG) said, “The accused were involved in the betting work in layered form. They keep noting down all the calls for bets. Most of the bets are passed on to the person sitting at a higher level. On which they get commission. There are a few websites on which they keep monitoring the rates of bets. The settlement is done through hawala transaction." Cops recovered Rs 65,000 in the Cyberabad raid.
During the raids, cops seized three cars, nearly 100 mobile phones, accounts diaries, LED monitor, range mobile location diverter and others. The accused would regularly change their locations to avoid getting caught. Cops are also looking at the possibility that this betting network on IPL could be related to match fixing and have international links.
A total of four FIRs have been registered in this case out of which two are in Jaipur, while one each in Nagaur and Cyberabad.