Fairplay Betting App Case: ED raids at 9 locations in Delhi, Noida, Mumbai

An investigation by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has revealed that payment gateway services are being misused to disburse betting winnings on betting app Fair Play to winners. In this regard, ED conducted raids at nine places in Delhi, Mumbai and Noida. ED raided 20 places in Gujarat in connection with one such betting racket. It was found that INR 800 crore was sent through payment gateways in 15 days and the ED got the information about this procedure. ED is probing illegal broadcasting of IPL matches through Fairplay app and betting in Lok Sabha elections.

The ED had received information that payment gateways were being misused to disburse winnings from fairplay bets. Based on that information, raids have been conducted at 9 places. Payers are appointed through Hawala Operator Payment Gateways to disburse winnings in Fair Play Betting App. A list of winners' bank account details and their winnings is provided.

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IPL matches were illegally broadcasted on the app Fair Play. Viacom 18 Company had the broadcasting rights of IPL matches. This time around 40 artists had promoted this fair play app. Viacom 18 had complained to the Maharashtra Cyber Police about the violation of digital property rights. It is alleged that the complainant company suffered a loss of more than INR 100 cr. 


Maharashtra Cyber had filed a case against Fair Play App for copyright infringement. Based on that, now ED also registered a new case in this matter. In the charge sheet submitted in the court in Chhattisgarh, information was given about 60 apps related to Mahadev app. It also had the name of fair play. ED investigations have revealed that Fair Play collected funds through bank accounts opened through various fake documents. Also transactions were done online using fake bank account amounts. Receipts of pharmaceutical companies were used for that. The funds have been channeled to foreign fake companies based in Hong Kong, China and Dubai. More than 400 bank accounts were used for that.