The Enforcement Directorate has registered a money laundering case against businessman and Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty’s husband Raj Kundra in connection with the alleged porn racket case, news agency ANI reported. Raj Kundra was arrested by the Mumbai Police in 2021 for allegedly running a porn racket with operations outside India as well. The ED will probe into the financial transaction pertaining to the case.
The alleged porn racket case goes back to February 2021 when the Mumbai Police made the first arrests in the case where women were being forced to star in porn movies.
Raj Kundra was arrested in the connection with this alleged porn racket after investigations revealed that Raj Kundra was a key conspirator in the case. The alleged pornographic content was being distributed over subscription-based mobile apps like HotHit Movies and Hotshots, as well as websites like Hothitmovies, Nuefliks, and Escapenow.
The Hotshots app, now taken down from play store, was developed by Armsprime Media Private Limited, a firm founded by Kundra in 2019. Armsprime later sold Hotshots to Kenrin Limited, a UK-based firm, owned by Kundra’s brother-in-law Pradeep Bakshi.
Police said they retrieved porn clips from Raj Kundra’s office and also found WhatsApp chats which show that though Raj Kundra was not officially part of UK-based Kenrin Private Limited, he was the one running the day-to-day operations of uploading porn content to the app.
Raj Kundra was arrested on July 19, 2021 along with 11 other people on charges related to the alleged creation of pornographic films. On September 20 last year, Raj Kundra was granted bail by a Mumbai Court in the pornography case on a surety of ₹50,000. Raj was arrested on July 19 along with 11 other people on charges related to the alleged creation of pornographic films.
Allegations were levelled against Kundra for allegedly producing and distributing porn films using a subscriber-driven mobile app called ‘Hotshots’. On the other hand, Kundra has refuted all the charges levelled against him by saying that he has been falsely implicated.
