Santiago Martin Lottery King Case: The Enforcement Directorate (ED), an agency investigating money laundering cases, took a major action in Haryana on Friday. During the action against Santiago Martin alias Lottery King, ED found a total of five crore rupees in cash. So much cash was recovered that even the ED team got tired of counting the notes. Machines had to be ordered for cash counting. After which the counting could be completed. ED also conducted search operations in Faridabad, Kolkata, Tamil Nadu in Haryana in this case.

A search operation was conducted against the accused known as “Santiago Martin alias Lottery King”. When asked about the cash of crores of rupees, no satisfactory answer was received, after which it was seized. According to the sources of the investigation agency, the cash has been seized from the Kolkata residence. The investigation agency carried out the search operation at a total of 20 locations including Faridabad in Haryana, Tamil Nadu. Martin has been on the radar of the investigating agency ED and Income Tax for a long time, but this search operation was carried out in the early morning of 14 November, and continued at many locations on Friday, 15 November.

Sikkim government was cheated of Rs 900 crore!
Martin came on the radar of investigating agency ED in the year 2023 itself, when he allegedly caused a loss of more than Rs 900 crore to the Sikkim government through the sale of a fake lottery in Kerala. While taking action in this case by the investigating agency, property worth about Rs 457 crore of him and his company was seized. According to the source of the investigating agency, Martin has a factory in Faridabad, Haryana, where the work of printing lottery goes on. Lottery printing work was going on in a very big way at this location. But after finding out all the inputs in this case, the action of search operation was carried out here as well. If we talk about the lottery business, then there is no ban on the lottery in cities like Punjab, West Bengal, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Goa, Maharashtra, Nagaland, etc., so this lottery business is very popular in those locations, but the lottery is banned in Delhi-NCR.