Kingpin of on-line cricket betting racket nabbed from Kolkata

By Express News Service
BERHAMPUR: After 5 months of cat-and-mouse sport, Berhampur police has arrested the kingpin of a web based cricket betting racket from Kolkata. Addressing mediapersons right here on Friday, Berhampur SP Pinak Mishra stated the accused, 46-year-old Dinesh Kumar Rathi, was a stockist and had many enterprise brokers, a few of whom have been arrested by Gosaninuagaon police in October final 12 months.

A particular police group arrested Rathi from Sovaram Basak Street in Kolkata on Thursday. A laptop computer and different digital devices seized from Rathi’s possession will probably be despatched for forensic evaluation. He was produced within the courtroom of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Kolkata which allowed Berhampur police to take him on a five-day transit remand.

Throwing gentle on the modus operandi of the racket, the SP stated Rathi had created panels or IDs and passwords after getting administrator rights from betting websites. He used to distribute these panels down the road. In October final 12 months, police unearthed the racket and arrested 5 distributors – R Lalie Achari, Okay Prashant Subudhi, Vishal Agarwal, Ajaya Panda, Sanjit Behera and vendor Ajit Barada  on this connection.

Besides, police had seized Rs 30 lakh, cell phones, SIM, ATM and PAN playing cards, screenshots from cell phones used for facilitating on-line IPL betting from their possession. Since then, Rathi was below the scanner of Berhampur police.

Quite a few financial institution accounts of Rathi having Rs 72.96 lakh have been frozen. The SP stated police at the moment are investigating the kingpin’s legal antecedents. Police has prayed to the native courtroom to take Rathi on a three-day remand.