{"id":987611,"date":"2026-01-26T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987611"},"modified":"2026-01-26T08:55:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T03:25:53","slug":"ed-chargesheets-online-gaming-app-winzo-alleges-players-duped-of-rs-734-cr-using-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/26\/ed-chargesheets-online-gaming-app-winzo-alleges-players-duped-of-rs-734-cr-using-bots\/","title":{"rendered":"ED chargesheets online gaming app WinZO, alleges players duped of Rs 734 cr using bots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Enforcement Directorate on Sunday said it has charge-sheeted real-money online gaming app WinZO and its promoters, alleging that players lost Rs 734 crore on the platform as the company &#8220;embedded&#8221; bots and AI to &#8220;manipulate&#8221; the game&#8217;s algorithms. <\/p>\n<p>According to an official statement, the ED&#8217;s Bengaluru zonal office filed the prosecution complaint on January 23 before a local court designated to try cases under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Enforcement Directorate on Sunday said it has charge-sheeted real-money online gaming app WinZO and its promoters, alleging that players lost Rs 734 crore on the platform as the company &#8220;embedded&#8221; bots and AI to &#8220;manipulate&#8221; the game&#8217;s algorithms. According to an official statement, the ED&#8217;s Bengaluru zonal office filed the prosecution complaint on January 23 before a local court designated to try cases under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987611","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=987611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}