NEW DELHI: After Tamil Nadu police’s withdrawal of an FIR against lottery king Santiago Martin in an alleged corruption case, now Enforcement Directorate has hit a new hurdle with Kolkata police filing a closure report in two FIRs against Martin and his company citing “want of evidence”.In the absence of a predicate offence (police FIR…
NEW DELHI: Coimbatore-based Santiago Martin, better known as ‘lottery king‘, has an annual turnover of Rs 15,000 crore from his lottery business, according to an ongoing ED probe that began in 2014. The enforcement agency has already attached properties and other assets worth over Rs 1,000 crore of Martin – Rs 622 crore by its…
NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate has recovered Rs 8.8 crore from the Chennai office of Santiago Martin, better known as lottery king, during searches on Thursday in a money laundering case against him and other associates for illegal gains of more than Rs 900 crore made in distribution and sale of lotteries.The searches were carried out…
NEW DELHI: Within weeks of the Madras high court validating the Enforcement Directorate’s money laundering probe against India’s biggest political donor Santiago Martin, better known as ‘lottery king’, the agency on Thursday carried out searches at 20 premises of the accused and his associates across Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Haryana and Punjab. Martin and his…
NEW DELHI: In a rare instance, ED is set to move SC in a case related to Santiago Martin — the Chennai-based ‘lottery king’ who earlier this year turned out to be the single biggest contributor to political parties with Rs 1,368 crore in electoral bonds — asking the top court to recall its 2023…
The irony is probably lost on every stakeholder – an ‘unlucky’ number – 13 – of states allow lotteries, which were back in news after lottery ‘king’ Santiago Martin emerged as the biggest electoral bond buyer.Lotteries vary across states – some are govt-run, some allow private players, they are a local obsession in some, not…
