ED arrests Ramgopal Agarwal in IPL betting case

New Delhi Dec 14: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested a Mumbai businessman in connection with its money laundering probe in the T-20 IPL betting case. ED has arrested Ramgopal Agarwal under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

The agency officials have said that "Agarwal and his associates collected Rs 3.25 crore from punter/bookies of Delhi for providing protection in the ED case and used hawala operators for transfer of money from Delhi to Mumbai and Mumbai to Lucknow."

"He (Agarwal) and his other associates had accepted a huge amount of bribes as quid pro quo for acts of omission and commission in connection with the investigation into cricket betting scandal by the ED"the agency added.

Earlier CBI too arrested Agarwal in an alleged corruption scandal pertaining to ED officials taking a bribe in the case.