{"id":31029,"date":"2022-06-22T06:03:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T09:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=31029"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:33:06","slug":"india-2-prosecuted-for-illegal-gambling-and-money-laundering-in-goa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-2-prosecuted-for-illegal-gambling-and-money-laundering-in-goa","title":{"rendered":"India: 2 prosecuted for illegal gambling and money laundering in Goa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The two are accused of running a group of clubs on a poker app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

India.- Two people are being prosecuted for alleged money laundering related to illegal poker. According to the Directorate of Enforcement (ED),\u00a0Hardeep Singh <\/strong>and Rahul Khanna <\/strong>were running a group called “Mini-India”\u00a0<\/strong>on the online gaming app PP Poker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s alleged that the association comprised 25 to 30 clubs run by different people. Through these clubs, individual players were invited through WhatsApp chats to place illegal bets on the poker gaming app. Each club paid a 5 per cent to 10 per cent commission on each table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) filed a case against Singh and Khanna at the Special Court (PMLA) in Mapusa, Goa on June 3 under the terms of PMLA 2002. The Mapusa court has now taken note of ED’s criminal case against those accused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elsewhere in India,\u00a0police in Chhattisgarh have arrested six people for alleged illegal gambling<\/a>. Officers seized cash, mobile phones and playing cards during a raid at a house in Jhilmila village located in the Mahasamund district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The two are accused of running a group of clubs on a poker app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) in India is prosecuting Hardeep Singh and Rahul Khanna for alleged money laundering linked to illegal poker operations on the PP Poker app. The individuals are accused of operating \"Mini-India,\" a network of 25-30 clubs that facilitated illicit betting via WhatsApp, collecting substantial commissions. This case, filed under PMLA 2002, underscores the heightened regulatory scrutiny and enforcement against unregulated iGaming activities in the Indian market.","focusai_entities":"Hardeep Singh, Rahul Khanna, Directorate of Enforcement (ED), PP Poker","focusai_location":"India, Goa, Mapusa, Chhattisgarh, Mahasamund","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (1.0), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on PP Poker?","query":"What are the potential implications for the PP Poker platform's B2B licensing and operational integrity given its alleged use in facilitating illegal gambling and money laundering?"},{"label":"Regulatory Framework Efficacy?","query":"How does the Directorate of Enforcement's successful prosecution under PMLA 2002 reflect on the efficacy and future direction of India's regulatory compliance and governance frameworks for online gaming?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[229],"class_list":["post-31029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31035,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31029\/revisions\/31035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}