According to authorities on Saturday, the director and employees of an offshore casino vessel in Goa allegedly attacked an Enforcement Directorate (ED) team.
Authorities said the incident happened at Cruise Casino Pride on Thursday, and a case has been filed against a number of individuals, including the director of the casino and two senior employees. The police station in Panaji received the complaint, which stated: “Poluri Chenna Kesava Rao, an assistant director, and his team were beaten by the workers.
On Thursday afternoon, the officials were held in a room while they searched the property. The accused threatened to harm the assistant director of the complaint, a Goa Police spokeswoman informed PTI. “In connection with a money laundering case, the ED has also accused the casino director and employees of destroying the evidence the team had gathered during their search,” the spokeswoman continued.
The central agency’s officials were attacked in the Bijwasan neighbourhood of Delhi last month. While looking into an instance of cyber fraud, the ED team was attacked, and another director was hurt.
According to accounts, the officials had gone to a chartered accountant’s farmhouse to conduct a raid. But as they arrived, Ashok Sharma, the suspect, and his relatives attacked them.
Three cops were hurt in January when members of the investigative agency were attacked in Sandeshkhali, in the North24 Parganas district of West Bengal. A member of the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress and a local strongman, Shahjahan Sheikh, was the target of the ED team’s raid in Sandeshkhali.