New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned former Indian cricketer Shikhar Dhawan on Thursday for questioning in an alleged illegal betting app-linked money laundering case, official sources said.
The federal probe agency will record his statement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) as part of this investigation linked to an “illegal” betting app named 1xBet, the sources said.
The 39-year-old former India cricketer is understood to have been linked to the app through certain endorsements. The ED wants to understand his links with this app during the questioning.
Last month, former cricketer Suresh Raina was questioned in this case by the federal probe agency.
The Union government has banned real-money online gaming by bringing a legislation recently.
According to estimates by market analysis firms and probe agencies, there are about 22 crore Indian users in various such online betting apps out of which half (about 11 crore) are regular users.
The online betting app market in India is worth over $100 billion, which is growing at a rate of 30%, according to experts.
The government recently told Parliament that it has issued 1,524 orders from 2022 to June 2025 to block online betting and gambling platforms.
