ED alleges Sunish Hegde extorted crores using hacked poker websites in Sriki case
BENGALURU: The investigation by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has revealed that Sunish Hegde, a city-based businessman, extorted money in crores from the victims of notorious hacker Srikrishna aka Sriki and received proceeds of crime in cash, bank transfers and casino chips since 2017.
Sriki told ED that he hacked poker websites, including PokerSaint, and Hegde used the hacked database for his poker business and made around Rs 6 crore. Sriki revealed that he hacked the Pokerbaazi website at the behest of Hegde, who then went to the owners of Pokerbaazi claiming to help fix the website. Hegde was paid Rs 2 crore for the fix. Sriki told ED that it was clearly “an extortion game”. Robin Khandelwala, the main conduit for layering proceeds of crime, too admitted it.
