Mumbai ED has raided the houses and offices of Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra. ED has raided the couple’s house in connection with the money laundering investigation related to creating and selling obscene content through mobile applications. The ED investigation is based on a 2021 Mumbai Police case. Raj Kundra was earlier arrested by the Mumbai Crime Branch in July 2021.
Later the court granted him bail. Raj Kundra had denied all the allegations against him in the case. Raj Kundra was caught in the ED’s net earlier this year when his assets, including a flat in Mumbai’s Juhu, a bungalow in Pune and equity shares worth Rs 98 crore, were seized as part of a money laundering probe.
The duo’s legal troubles came after the ED started investigating Amit Bhardwaj for his involvement in a Ponzi scheme in 2018. Whereas Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra were initially seen as suspects. Both Raj and Shilpa Shetty maintained their innocence and claimed that they have fully cooperated in the ED investigation. Raj attended many summons and Shilpa also showed all the papers.
Raj (Raj Kundra) and Shilpa Shetty later challenged the ED notice to vacate their properties, including their Mumbai home in Juhu and a farmhouse near Pune. The Bombay High Court had given them interim relief by staying the eviction order. He was released from Arthur Jail in September.
