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