NEW DELHI :
THE ED, along with the Gujarat
Police, undertook searches in
multiple States on Monday as
part of a money-laundering
probe linked to alleged unauthorised streaming of ICCMen’s
T20 World Cup 2024 matches
by a “betting” website.
The federal agency said in a
statement that 20 premises in
Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru
(Karnataka), Lucknow (Uttar
Pradesh) and Coimbatore
(Tamil Nadu) were covered by
its officials and those from the
Ahmedabad Cyber Police
Departmentinthecaseagainst
the “magicwin” web portal
.
The Enforcement
Directorate (ED) case, filed
under provisions of the
Prevention of Money
LaunderingAct (PMLA), stems
from an Ahmedabad Police FIR,
which stated that a website --
magicwin.Games --hadunauthorisedly hosted, streamed
andbroadcastmatchesduring
the World Cup.
The broadcast rights for the
tournament were given to Star
India Private Limited by the
International Cricket Council
(ICC), the ED said.
Magicwin is a website compatible with any Internet
browser on mobile phones,
Smart TVs and computers,
through which the company’s
paid content is broadcast and
allows viewers towatchmatches for free, the agency added