Businessman and Shilpy Shetty’s husband Raj Kundra reportedly sold his Rs 80-crore Juhu flat to actor-wife for Rs 38 crore in 2022 after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) initiated a probe against him in a money laundering case.
A report in Times of India quoted its sources as saying that the probe agency it was an internal arrangement of the couple to avoid the property’s attachment and it believes that Kundra is still the flat’s real owner.
On Thursday, the ED issued a press release stating that the case pertains to alleged duping of investors through the use of crypto currency like Bitcoins.
The agency alleged Kundra received 285 Bitcoins from the “mastermind” and promoter of Gain Bitcoin Ponzi “scam”, Amit Bhardwaj, for “setting up a Bitcoin mining farm in Ukraine”.
The businessman’s attached properties include a residential flat in Mumbai’s Juhu, a bungalow in Pune and equity shares in the name of Kundra. These assets are worth Rs 97.79 crore, the ED said.
A lawyer for the couple said no prima facie case has been made out against his clients and that they would cooperate with the authorities.
“We have complete faith in the honourable judiciary. I believe when we make our fair representation before the honourable Enforcement Directorate, even the investigation agencies may grant justice to us. “We have faith in the fair investigation,” advocate Prashant Patil said in a statement.
Day after ED’s revelations, Raj Kundra shared a cryptic post on his Instagram stories. “There is a time to be a nice person. And there’s time to say enough is enough,” his post with a picture and quote read.
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