New Delhi: Actress Shilpa Shetty’s husband & businessman Raj Kundra’s troubles are far from over. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has lodged a case against him in connection with an alleged porn racket that came to light last year.
The ED sleuths are investigating money laundering allegations against the businessmen and are looking into the financial transactions of his company & his associates. Reports suggest that the agency has found damning documents of financial irregularities in Kundra’s firm and filed a case last week. The ED sleuths may begin questioning him as early as next week.
Kundra’s money trail under ED lens
According to sources, Kundra came under scanner during probe in pornography case. Under the probe were companies like Arms Prime Media Limited & an App named ‘Hotshots’, both founded by him. Hotshots app was later sold to UK based company Kenrin, whose CEO was Pradeep Bakshi, his brother-in-law.
Kundra’s company Viaan Industries had a tie-up with Kenrin and transactions of crore of rupees happened between the two, sources said. The pornographic content/series were produced by Kundra’s company while the same was uploaded on HotShots App in UK. The HotShots App also had subscription service and existing subscribers had to pay for watching the porn content. And, the money earned from the porn films used to come into account of Kundra’s company Viaan Industries. It is this connection that the ED officials are investigation and collected required documents.
Earlier, Kundra was arrested by Mumbai police in July 2021 and he spent close to two months behind bars. The charges against him & associates was luring & browbeating young models for acting in pornography movies that his company made. They were hoodwinked and cheated on pretext of landing up with a future role in web-series or movies.
