{"id":955653,"date":"2025-08-18T08:28:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T02:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=955653"},"modified":"2025-08-18T09:02:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T03:32:41","slug":"illegal-betting-app-ed-freezes-rs-110-crore-worth-bank-funds-seizes-1200-credit-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/18\/illegal-betting-app-ed-freezes-rs-110-crore-worth-bank-funds-seizes-1200-credit-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal betting app: ED freezes Rs 110 crore worth bank funds; seizes 1,200 credit cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Funds worth Rs 110 crore kept in mule bank accounts have been frozen and 1,200 mule credit cards were seized following recent searches against the Indian operations of a Cyprus-based &#8220;illegal&#8221; online betting platform named Parimatch, the Enforcement Directorate said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Parimatch app, as per the federal probe agency, gained visibility in the country through &#8220;aggressive&#8221; marketing, including sponsorship of sports tournaments and partnerships with well-known celebrities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Funds worth Rs 110 crore kept in mule bank accounts have been frozen and 1,200 mule credit cards were seized following recent searches against the Indian operations of a Cyprus-based &#8220;illegal&#8221; online betting platform named Parimatch, the Enforcement Directorate said on Thursday. Parimatch app, as per the federal probe agency, gained visibility in the country through &#8220;aggressive&#8221; marketing, including sponsorship of sports tournaments and partnerships with well-known celebrities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}