According to the report of the news agency ‘ANI’, during the court appearance, Mumbai Police said, ‘While examining the WhatsApp chat of Raj Kundra, we have found that he was about to make a big deal with 121 videos. For this an amount of $ 1.2 million was fixed. It seems that this deal was being done for the international market. After the arrest of Raj Kundra on Monday, the court had earlier sent him on police remand till July 23. His remand was ending on Friday. But in view of the police investigation, the court extended the remand of both Raj and his company’s IT head Ryan Tharp by 4 days, not granting bail.
‘Used betting on money from porn movies’
The police also raised the suspicion in the court that Raj Kundra used to invest the earnings from porn films in online betting. “For this, we have to investigate the transaction of money between the Yes Bank account of Raj Kundra and United Bank of Africa,” the police said. The police also came to know in the investigation that Raj Kundra, Ryan Tharp, Anand Bakshi and other associates used to talk about the content of Hotshots app on the WhatsApp group itself. Along with this, it is also discussed that in view of the heat of the investigation, many such information from emails and websites has been deleted by Anand Bakshi in July itself. Police suspect that the data that has been deleted was linked to the Hotshots app.
‘Data deleted at Ryan’s request’
Police have also recorded statements of several employees of Raj Kundra’s company. These employees said that after the police filed the case in February, they deleted the data associated with the Hotshots app at the behest of Ryan Tharp. Not only this, the police also claim that it was Ryan Tharp who created the new app ‘Bolifem’ in January, which was allegedly Raj Kundra’s ‘Plan B’. The police is now preparing to further interrogate the actresses seen in the videos by identifying them.
Shilpa-Raj interrogated face to face
Raj Kundra was arrested at 11 pm on Monday night. After the hearing in the court on Friday, the crime branch had taken Raj to his house after three days. The team of Crime Branch of Mumbai Police reached Raj Kundra’s house at around 3:30 pm on Friday. While the entire house was searched for 6 hours there, Raj Kundra and Shilpa Shetty were also interrogated face to face. Shilpa Shetty had resigned from Raj Kundra’s company ‘Vian Industries’ sometime back. The same thing came to the police and Shilpa Shetty’s statement was also recorded in this regard. However, Shilpa has defended her husband and said that the films that Raj was making are not porn but erotica.
Police got 48 TB porn video content
The crime branch team has seized laptops and many other things from the house after 6 hours of search and interrogation. Earlier, raids were also conducted at Raj Kundra’s office. The police is said to have seized a sandbox containing 48TB of pornographic video content. Of these, 35 were uploaded on the ‘Hotshots’ app. Police allege that Raj Kundra used to do business of porn videos through this app.
Raj Kundra sent back to jail after long interrogation by Crime Branch
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