New Delhi, Aug 12 (PTI) Former India cricketer Suresh Raina is expected to appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) here on Wednesday for questioning in an alleged illegal betting app-linked money laundering case, official sources said.

Once he deposes, the federal probe agency is expected to record his statements under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

Raina (38) has been asked to depose before the agency on August 13 for questioning in an illegal betting case linked to an app named 1xBet, the sources said.

The former India cricketer is understood to have been linked to the app through certain endorsements. The ED officials are expected to understand his links with this app during the questioning.

The agency is probing multiple such cases involving illegal betting apps that are alleged to have duped numerous people and investors worth crores of rupees or have evaded a huge amount of taxes. PTI NES NSD NSD

Money laundering probe under PMLA targets alleged endorsement links to illegal betting apps; statements to be recorded for financial tracing. A federal investigation under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act will record statements of a summoned individual to determine his commercial endorsement links with an illegal betting application and to ascertain related financial flows, potential proceeds of crime, and tax noncompliance as part of a wider probe into multiple such apps.