“No association with Mahadev Betting app,” EaseMyTrip clarifies after probe agency conducted searches

Journey platform EaseMyTrip has issued a press release on the searches carried out at its premises by the Enforcement Directorate in reference to the continuing investigation into the Mahadev Betting App. The corporate has denied any affiliation with the app.

“As per info obtainable within the public area, the ED carried out searches at over 50 areas of varied individuals and corporates. Amongst them, one was the EaseMyTrip Gurgaon office. We categorically state that EaseMyTrip has no affiliation with the Mahadev Betting App or another betting platform. We’ve got prolonged full cooperation to the authorities and can proceed to take action to make sure full transparency,” an official assertion from the Journey Platform instructed ANI.

“Whereas EaseMyTrip has no direct or oblique affiliation with the Mahadev Betting App or another betting platform, we stay absolutely dedicated to cooperating with the authorities all through the course of the investigation,” stated an EaseMyTrip spokesperson to a question from ANI.

Sources investigating the case instructed on the situation of anonymity that to date nothing incriminating had been uncovered throughout searches on the EaseMyTrip premises throughout searches carried out on Wednesday.

Established in 2008, EaseMyTrip is India’s second-largest* online travel platform. Based by brothers Nishant, Rikant, and Prashant Pitti, the corporate’s inception stemmed from their earlier enterprise, Duke Journey, with a imaginative and prescient to streamline operations and minimise capital necessities.

EaseMyTrip incorporates a complete mosaic of journey services and products which can be specifically designed to supply a personalised buyer expertise at its greatest.In the meantime, the ED is investigating a case towards “Mahadev On-line Guide,” which, in accordance with the company, is an umbrella syndicate that arranges on-line platforms for enabling illegal betting websites to enrol new customers, create consumer IDs, and launder cash by means of a layered internet of Benami financial institution accounts.The ED initiated an investigation on the idea of First Data Stories (FIRS) registered by the Chhattisgarh Police. The ED investigation revealed that “the operations of Mahadev On-line Guide are being run from Dubai and it operates by franchising ‘panel and branches’ to their recognized associates on a 70 per cent to 30 per cent revenue ratio.”