Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra received relief from the Bombay High Court after their eviction notice from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) was paused. The couple had previously challenged their eviction notice in court related to a money laundering case.
In a statement shared by Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra’s lawyer Prashant Patil, they denied connection to the Ponzi scheme. The statement stated, “At the outset, let us first clarify the fake media reports suggesting that Mr Raj Kundra and his wife, Mrs Shilpa Shetty Kundra, are involved in the cryptocurrency Ponzi scam. This is not even the case of the Enforcement Directorate. It is clarified that Mr Kundra and Mrs. Shetty have no connection to the alleged Ponzi scam, which dates back to 2017.”
The statement mentioned that while the court has ordered a stay on the eviction notice, Shetty and Kundra would be appealing before the Appellate Tribunal in Delhi. It also added that the couple will continue cooperating with the ED till the case is solved. It continued, “An eviction notice was issued by the ED against my clients’, residential properties, which has been stayed by the Honourable High Court, granting Mr Raj Kundra and Mrs. Shilpa Shetty time to file an appeal before the Honourable Appellate Tribunal in Delhi for further relief. It is the duty of my clients to continue cooperating with the Enforcement Directorate’s investigation.”
The couple went to the Bombay High Court on Wednesday after receiving an eviction notice from the ED. The notice, sent on September 27, ordered them to vacate their properties in Juhu and Pawna Lake by October 13. Reports also mention that the Mumbai Zonal Office provisionally attached assets worth Rs. 97.79 crore belonging to Raj Kundra under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.
The ED launched an investigation after multiple FIRs filed by the Maharashtra and Delhi Police against M/s Variable Tech Pte Ltd and several individuals, including the late Amit Bhardwaj and his relatives came to light. They were accused of raising around Rs. 6,600 crore through a Bitcoin scheme that falsely promised investors a 10 percent monthly return back in 2017. As per the ED, the investigation revealed that Raj Kundra received 285 Bitcoins from Bhardwaj to establish a Bitcoin mining farm in Ukraine.
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