<p>New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned representatives of tech giants Meta and <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/google">Google</a> as part of a money laundering investigation against a number of illegal online betting platforms, official sources said Saturday.</p><p>The executives have been asked to depose before the agency on July 21 here and get their statements recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they said.</p><p>There was no immediate response from the two companies.</p><p>The federal agency is probing multiple platforms hosting illegal betting and gambling links, including instances of advertisements placed for them on various Internet-based social media outlets and app stores.</p>.Google expands same-day repair centres to 21 cities in India.<p>The tech giants are understood to have been called by the ED to understand how such illegal platforms are able to place advertisements on their social media and communication links.</p><p>Some actors, celebrities and sports persons are also under the scanner of the agency in these cases, and they are also expected to be summoned by the ED soon.</p><p>The ED has said illegal online betting and gambling platforms were cheating innocent people of their hard-earned money and also laundering and evading taxes worth crores of rupees.</p>
<p>New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned representatives of tech giants Meta and <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/google">Google</a> as part of a money laundering investigation against a number of illegal online betting platforms, official sources said Saturday.</p><p>The executives have been asked to depose before the agency on July 21 here and get their statements recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they said.</p><p>There was no immediate response from the two companies.</p><p>The federal agency is probing multiple platforms hosting illegal betting and gambling links, including instances of advertisements placed for them on various Internet-based social media outlets and app stores.</p>.Google expands same-day repair centres to 21 cities in India.<p>The tech giants are understood to have been called by the ED to understand how such illegal platforms are able to place advertisements on their social media and communication links.</p><p>Some actors, celebrities and sports persons are also under the scanner of the agency in these cases, and they are also expected to be summoned by the ED soon.</p><p>The ED has said illegal online betting and gambling platforms were cheating innocent people of their hard-earned money and also laundering and evading taxes worth crores of rupees.</p>