Kolkata (West Bengal) [India]: It took over 16 hrs and 8 counting devices for the Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials to count the heap of cash that was recovered from the house of a businessman in Kolkata on Saturday.

ED authorities recuperated over Rs 17 crore from the Yard Reach residence of business person Aamir Khan. The central agency found 10 trunks on the spot. However, the money was discovered in 5 trunks at Khan’s home.  The probing agency began the search on Saturday morning as well as the checking of cash money proceeded till late at night. The ED search group was accompanied by Bank officials and main forces.

Sources claimed the heaps of notes were mainly in the religion of Rs 500. Nevertheless, currency notes of Rs 2,000 as well as Rs 200 were also there.

The raids were conducted under the arrangements of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.

The case was registered on the basis of the First Information Record (FIR) on February 15 in 2014 at Park Street Police Headquarters in Kolkata against Aamir Khan and also others based upon an issue filed by Federal Bank authorities, in the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Calcutta.

Aamir Khan launched a mobile pc gaming application namely E-Nuggets, which was created for the objective of defrauding the general public, the ED said.

Throughout the first period, the firm stated, the individuals were rewarded with the compensation as well as the balance in the wallet could be withdrawn hassle-free.

” This supplied initial self-confidence amongst customers and also they began spending bigger amounts for a higher percent of commission and also a greater number of purchase orders,” the probe agency stated.

It said after gathering a good-looking amount from the general public, suddenly, the withdrawal from the Application, was quit, at one or the other pretense such as system upgradation, an examination by police.

” After that, all information including account details was rubbed out from the Application web servers and also just after that the customers recognized the tactic.”

Previously on Saturday, the main agency had accomplished search operations at six places in Kolkata with respect to an investigation associating with the mobile pc gaming application.

During the search procedure, the ED stated, it was observed that the entities linked to the instance were using dummy accounts.