<h1>PMLA searches over alleged illegal online betting proceeds: luxury cars seized, hawala-linked foreign property papers attached, probe continues</h1> Searches were conducted under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in an investigation into laundering of proceeds allegedly generated from illegal online betting and gambling; four luxury vehicles and documents indicating purported foreign real-estate investment through hawala were seized, resulting in attachment of suspected proceeds and evidentiary material for further action. The PMLA case arises from a predicate FIR alleging cheating, forgery and illegal betting activities; this linkage enables proceeds from those scheduled offences to be treated as 'proceeds of crime' for PMLA investigation and seizure. Summons were issued to the suspect for examination, and non-appearance keeps the investigation pending for coercive steps permissible under the Act.