The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is conducting raids on Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty’s businessman-husband Raj Kundra’s residences and offices in a money laundering case which is linked to a pornography network case. According to media reports, the ED officials have been investigating Raj and Shilpa’s house since 6 am (Friday, November 29).
Reportedly, the ED team is checking the documents in their house and office. The operation also includes searches at the properties of other individuals who are involved in the case.
Trouble for Raj and Shilpa
So far, the ED conducted raids at 15 locations including Raj’s premises and several other locations in Mumbai and Uttar Pradesh in connection with the pornography case.
Raj has been under the ED’s lens, following allegations that he was a key player in a scheme that monetised explicit content streamed via mobile applications.
In October 2024, the ED told the Bombay High Court not to act on the eviction notices that were issued to Shilpa and Raj. They had received a notice in September 2024 to vacate their Juhu residence and a farmhouse near the Pawna dam in Pune district, which were attached by the agency in connection with the money laundering case.
However, in an official statement, the couple’s lawyer had informed media, “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 further read, “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.”
