Overview

• ED searched 31 locations across Karnataka, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Goa and Sikkim, including five Goa casinos linked to the legislator.
• The operation yielded about ₹12 crore in cash, roughly ₹1 crore in foreign currency, gold worth ₹6 crore, 10 kg of silver and four vehicles.
• Investigators froze 17 bank accounts and two lockers and seized property records from premises tied to family members and associates.
• Veerendra was detained in Gangtok during a visit to explore leasing a land casino, produced before a magistrate on transit remand and brought to Bengaluru for interrogation.
• Officials allege he operated betting sites such as King567 and Raja567 while his brother ran Dubai entities—Diamond Softech, TRS Technologies and Prime9 Technologies—with evidence indicating complex layering of funds.