ED said the searches were also conducted at premises connected with the startup’s cofounders, Sachin Gupta and Ashish Garg, under PMLA
The ED said that various incriminating documents and “digital data” were seized during the searches
The ED also noted that the platform’s app and website had no mechanism for KYC verification and lacked any safeguards to prevent minors from registering as users
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted search operations at four premises linked to the opinion trading platform