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Kolkata: The Kolkata Police closed two cheating and criminal conspiracy cases against Tamil Nadu-based Future Gaming and Hotel Services Private Ltd around the same time the company first donated to the Trinamool Congress (TMC) through electoral bonds, an investigation by ThePrint has found...
According to data released by the Election Commission of India on 21 March, Future Gaming and Hotel Services, a Coimbatore-based company owned by lottery king Santiago Martin, is the largest purchaser of electoral bondsand had donated Rs 542 crore to the Trinamool Congress its highest contribution to any political party...
According to the ECI data, Future Gaming, which runs the popular Dear Lottery game in West Bengal and Sikkim, made its first donation to the TMC on 14 January, 2022..
In a press statement, the agency said it had initiated a money laundering investigation against M/S Future Gaming and its Sub Distributors and Area Distributors for West Bengal on the basis of FIRs registered by Kolkata Police under various sections of IPC and under section 7(3) and 9 of Lotteries Regulation Act, 1998...
This FIR booked Future Gaming under IPC sections 120B (criminal conspiracy), 34 (criminal act is done by several persons in furtherance of the common intention), 406 (criminal breach of trust), 417 and 419 (cheating), 418 (cheating with knowledge of wrongful loss),419 (cheating by personation), 420 (cheating and dishonesty) and provisions of the Lotteries (Regulation) Act, 1998...
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