IPL Betting Scam To Links With The Underworld, A Look Into Raj Kundra's Controversial Life
Bollywood and life in Mumbai looks glamorous and enticing, something we all want to be a part of. The biggest businessmen and film stars are definitely making a lot of money but a lot more is on stake too. Since movie stars have an unpredictable?career, they end up investing in other business?to have stability. Shilpa Shetty's husband Raj Kundra recently got embroiled?into a shocking controversy.?
The businessman?who is active on social media showing his great family life has been sent to police custody till July 23 in pornographic related case. This is not the first time, the businessman?has a case against him.?
Let's take a look at Raj Kundra's controversial side of life.?
?1. Raj Kundra's infamous IPL's betting scandal?
?2013 was a tough year on Raj Kundra as he was involved in the infamous Ipl betting scandal. He was dragged into this after Chennai Superkings Gurunath Meiyappan was also allegedly linked to the betting scandal.Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar said, ¡°He has admitted to betting. He used to bet on his own team. We have also come to know that he has lost a lot of money in betting. He used to bet through Goenka, who is also a bookie," Goenka said.The police, however, clarified that he was only into booking and not match fixing which led to a ban from cricket activies for life. His team Rajasthan Royals was also suspended from playing for two years. In 2018, Kundra fought the case and was apparently given a clean chit.
?2. Raj Kundra didn't pay to his employees in his newly launched shopping channel?
?In 2017, Raj Kundra was accused?for not paying to his employees. Salaries were left unpaid when he resigned as CEO of a home-shopping channel Best Deal TV he co-owned back then. Raj Kundra denied this news too and called out false allegations on Twitter.
3. The bitcoin scandal that involved Raj Kundra
In 2018, Raj Kundra was summoned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) regarding his role in the bitcoin scam.. There were reports on his involvement in the Rs 2000 crore scam. It is however unclear at the moment whether Kundra, the husband of actress Shilpa Shetty, played a role or was a victim in the ? 2,000 crore scam, ED official said earlier.?
¡°Raj Kundra was called for questioning in a bitcoin scam, which the Thane crime branch is investigating. We are looking at the angle of whether there is any alleged money laundering in the scam," said the ED official.?
?4. Raj Kundra's name was even dragged in the underworld connection?
Soon after his appearance in front of the ED, reports started floating about his involvement with the underworld. In 2019,?Raj Kundra was summoned by the ED in connection with his business dealings with an alleged associate of D-Company¡¯s Iqbal Mirchi.
Raj Kundra, in a statement earlier had denied the allegations levelled against him and his wife of knowingly having business dealings with Iqbal Mirchi, an alleged associate of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.?
?5. Raj Kundra's former wife Kavita claimed he cheated on her?
Raj Kundra's first wife Kavita made serious allegations on Raj and his current wife Shilpa Shetty in 2007.?Kavita blamed actor Shilpa Shetty, who is now married to Raj, for breaking their marriage."I look at the pictures of them together and think, she¡¯s with my husband, she¡¯s living my life. While I was trying to put our marriage back together, he was talking constantly about Shilpa, as if it didn¡¯t matter what happened to us because he had found someone better, cleverer and more famous than me. Now he has begun pestering me for a divorce. I asked him if he planned to marry someone else but he avoided the question," she had said.
Raj Kundra, however, denied this and said Kavita was having an affair with his brother in law and that's wh he has to move on. The duo even have a daughter together.
6 . Poonam Panday lashed out at the businessman and said she feels bad for Shilpa Shetty
Sherlyn Chopra and Poonam Panday have come forward and even blamed Raj Kundra for entering the adult film industry.?During the investigation, it was revealed that Sherlyn was paid Rs 30 lakh for each project, and so far, she had done 15-20 projects for Kundra.
7. Model claims Raj Kundra demanded nude audition for web series?
An old video of a model has resurfaced where she revealed Raj Kundra asked for a nude audition on a video call.?After Raj Kundra's arrest last evening, an undated interview of actress and model Sagarika Shona Suman has re-surfaced where she has leveled a series of allegations against Kundra claiming that she had been offered a role in a web series produced by him in August 2020.
"He told me if I joined (the web series), I would continue to get work and I would reach great heights. So I agreed and then he told me to audition. I told him it's COVID so how will I give the audition. So he said you can do it via video-call. When I joined the video call, he demanded that I give a nude audition. I was shocked and I refused. The video call had three people- one of whom had their face covered and one of them was Raj Kundra I think. I want that if he is involved in such things, he is arrested and such a racket is exposed.??
8. Latest being, Raj Kundra arrested in Porn apps case?
Mumbai Police Commissioner Hemant Nagrale said the arrest was in connection with the case registered with Crime Branch Mumbai in February this year about making pornographic films and publishing them through some mobile apps.?
